Corruption poses a major threat to the effective functioning of a country’s justice sector, hindering its ability to uphold the rule of law thereby weakening the state. The case-study report “Crutch to Catalyst: The International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala” published by the International Crisis Group takes a closer look at the International Commission Against 
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By: Tereza Steinhublova | Monday, March 21st, 2016Institutional Influences on Guatemala’s SSR
By: Joe Derdzinski | Monday, February 11th, 2013Wracked by violence and poverty, the political and economic reforms that have brought relative prosperity and liberal governance across Latin America seem, until recently, to have bypassed Guatemala. This was not due to lack of international attention. In fact, despite the tens of millions of dollars that donors have invested in the justice and security
Guatemala: President Pérez Molina’s Successes and Failures
By: Ambassador Donald Planty | Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013President Pérez Molina’s first year in office has produced mixed results. The President’s administration has enjoyed some modest successes on the economic and social front but has suffered a series of disappointments and setbacks to Guatemala’s most important challenge – improving governance and security.
Guatemala’s ‘Mano Dura’ and the Future of SSR
By: Michael Lawrence | Wednesday, November 9th, 2011On Sunday, Guatemalans elected retired general Otto Perez Molina as their country’s new President. As a former head of the country’s intelligence agency (EMP) during the 1980s, Perez was a central figure in a counterinsurgency machine that killed over 200 000 people in a series of atrocities that the United Nations later declared to constitute
Violence and impunity persist in Guatemala, nearly 15 years after end of civil war
By: Jesse Hembruff | Thursday, July 15th, 2010Although its civil war ended in 1996, Guatemala has remained one of Latin America’s most dangerous countries, with levels of violent crime even higher than during the war itself. Drug Traffickers, gangs, and corrupt security forces have benefitted from a pervasive culture of impunity that has resulted from governance failures and widespread fear among the
Working paper: “The Privatisation of Security in Latin America”
By: Geoff Burt | Tuesday, July 13th, 2010The Global Consortium on Security Transformation (GCST), a partnership of six institutions located in different regions of the world which aims to encourage “existing south-south and south-north security and development debates,” recently released a series of working papers. One of the papers, “The Privatisation of Security in Latin America,” provides an excellent literature review of
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