Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Structural vs. Contingent Violence in Latin America 1
5. Making Sense of Haiti’s State Fragility and Violence: Combining Structure and Contingency? 19
6. Operation Condor as an International System of State Violence and Terror: A Historical-Structural Analysis 53
7. Written in Black and Red: Murder as a Communicative Act in Mexico 89
8. Protest and Police “Excesses” in Chile: The Limits of Social Accountability 113
9. The Police Ombudsman in Brazil as a Potential Mechanism to Reduce Violence 143
10. Democracy, Threat, and Repression: Kidnapping and Repressive Dynamics during the Colombian Conflict 171
11. To End the War in Colombia: Conversatorios among Security Forces, Ex-Guerrillas, and Political Elites, and Ceasefire Seminars-Workshops for the Technical Sub-Commission 199
12. Contributors 245
13. Index 249