Armed Violence and Health

Armed Violence and Health

Within this research line, we investigate the interrelations between armed violence and its direct and indirect impacts on individual and collective health. Several national contexts, particularly in Latin America, are affected by the prevalence of this form of violence, which increases the vulnerability of individuals, families, communities, and territories, producing severe consequences for both physical and mental health.

Among the factors associated with this field of research are international policies historically implemented in the region, largely understood as material and subjective legacies of coloniality. The war on drugs policy is one such example, operating as a necropolitical framework that criminalizes territories and populations of the Global South.

We therefore examine health implications such as deaths, political erasure, the weakening of community social fabrics, forced displacement, environmental destruction, institutional racism, gender-based violence, among others.