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DESCRIPTION:Co-hosted by the Lin Centre and the Centre for International Pe
 ace and Security Studies\n\n“Organized Crime and Political Violence: Chall
 enges for International Norms”\n\nPablo Kalmanovitz\, ITAM (Mexico City)\n
 	Monday\, September 12\, 2022\n	5:00 – 6:30 pm\n	Leacock 429\n\nMost contempo
 rary lethal violence does not occur in war zones\, and the intensity of vi
 olence in non-war settings is often higher than in war zones. In many Lati
 n American countries\, a significant portion of lethal violence has been l
 inked to criminal organizations. At the centre of this criminal violence\,
  organizations dedicated to the exploitation of illegal markets—illicit dr
 ugs\, human trafficking\, extortion\, mining\, logging\, counterfeiting\, 
 and more—have created armed capabilities sufficient to attack and coerce p
 opulations. They have established control over territories\, and deployed 
 levels of force far beyond the capacity of regular police forces. In respo
 nse to these attacks\, states have resorted to military means and engaged 
 in “wars” against drugs and crime.\n\nThis lecture looks normatively at th
 ese practices of organized criminal violence in Latin America. It distingu
 ishes between organized crime and political insurgency\, and identifies tw
 o sets of related questions that pertain specifically to criminal violence
 . While situations of criminal violence often generate humanitarian protec
 tion needs at the level of armed conflicts\, there are strong reasons agai
 nst treating them legally as armed conflicts. And even though often operat
 ing formally as “law enforcers” of last resort\, military approaches to cr
 iminal violence collectivize liability to state harm in the extreme forms 
 of coercion and criminal prosecution. From the standpoints of individual h
 uman rights and jus ad bellum\, there are strong reasons against resort to
  military force in contexts of criminal violence.\n\n \n\nPablo Kalmanovit
 z\n	Professor\, Department of International Studies\n	Instituto Tecnológico 
 Autónomo de México (ITAM) - Mexico City\n	pablo.kalmanovitz [at] itam.mx\n
 \nPablo Kalmanovitz is professor in the Department of International Studie
 s at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City. P
 reviously he was professor at CIDE and the Universidad de los Andes in Bog
 otá\, postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and the European University I
 nstitute\, and visiting scholar at McGill University and the University of
  Ulster. His research focuses on normative aspects of organized violence\,
  in particular the international regulation of armed force\, on which he h
 as published numerous articles and book chapters. His book The Laws of War
  in International Thought was published by Oxford University Press in 2020
 .\n
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LOCATION:Room 429\, Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 r
 ue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Marrett Lecture: Pablo Kalmanovitz\, 'Organized Crime and Political
  Violence: Challenges for International Norms'
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/politicalscience/channels/event/marrett-lecture-p
 ablo-kalmanovitz-organized-crime-and-political-violence-challenges-interna
 tional-340971
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