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Changing Lenses: Conflict Analysis and Mexico’s “Drug War”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ami C. Carpenter
Ami C. Carpenter*
Affiliation:
Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego. [email protected]
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Abstract

U.S. policy toward Mexico has been influenced by a “drug war” frame that has left little rhetorical and operational room for creative multisectoral strategies to stem the violence and address its causes. This article proposes conflict analysis, a lens for viewing conflict that brings into focus a multilevel, integrative diagnosis of the violence in Mexico and supports recent evolutions in Plan Mérida toward a more holistic peacebuilding approach.

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Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , Fall 2013 , pp. 139 - 160
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Copyright © University of Miami 2013

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