African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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38 p., 019: 35143042; edited by Minority Rights Group; 0305-6252; Text first published in 'No longer invisible' by Minority Rights Publications: 1995; Authors: Jameelah S. Muhammad ... [et al.]; Includes bibliographical references (p. 38)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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45 p., Presents some of the key law enforcement and socioeconomic policy lessons from one type of response to urban slums controlled by non-state actors: namely, when the government resorts to physically retaking urban spaces that had been ruled by criminal or insurgent groups and where the state's presence had been inadequate or sometimes altogether nonexistent. Focuses specifically on Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Jamaica.
Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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4 p., The growing violence and instability in Mexico and the Caribbean will clearly demand greater attention from the United States in the future. This conference, held at the University of Pittsburgh campus on October 28-30, 2009 offered an important opportunity to assess these threats, and to consider what can be done to counter them. Includes chapter "Perspectives on the Caribbean."
