Mar 2020 – Feb 2024
These questions are of significant policy relevance since many low- and middle-income countries experience high rates of violent crime, contrasting with the long-term decline in armed conflict and common claims that we are living in the most peaceful time in history.
The 2013 Global Study on Homicide from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows that in 2012 almost half a million people died because of an intentional homicide, the most severe form of and the most reliable and accurate measure of violent crime within and across countries.
As such, violent crime is perhaps one of the most severe threats to the Sustainable Development Goal #16, underlining the promotion of “peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development”.
This project has the triple ambition of theory development, data collection, and empirical analysis. It has two key objectives:
To tackle the existing theoretical gaps and empirical challenges, this joint research project includes scholars with proven and complementary strengths in terms of thematic substance, methodological skills, and expertise on specific cases.
This project is funded under the FINNUT Programme of the Research Council of Norway.