Series: Latin American Security Challenges Amidst Authoritarian Populism

Panel 5: Strengthening Effective Justice Provision in Latin America

Speakers:

• Daniel Brinks, Professor of Government and Law, University of Texas-Austin
• Ana Arjona, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
• Deborah Boucoyannis, Professorial Lecturer in Political Science, George Washington University
• Moderated by Claudia López, Harvard 2024 Advance Leadership Initiative Fellow and Mayor of Bogota 2020-2023

About the Series:

Moderated by Claudia López Hernández, this five-session seminar intends to analyze potential policy alternatives to deal more assertively with the challenges of security and justice provision in Latin America. Assertiveness in two senses: first, as effectiveness to the citizens’ legitimate demands of protection against violence, impunity, and uncertainty, and second as feasibility to offer rule of law solutions able to outcompete populist authoritarian alternatives. Explore the contributions of scholarly research and practitioner experiences in developing a set of policies and proposals that can effectively deal with violence, impunity, and uncertainty, and at the same time outcompete populist candidates’ mano dura policies.

Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Center for International Development, and the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University.