Home । About Us ।  Local Governance । Intermediate Level of Government ।  Security Sector Reform । Representative and Participatory Democracy  ।  Afro-Colombian Issues  ।  Culture and Arts  ।  News ।  Events  ।  Photo Gallery । Contact Us

Security Sector Reform: Publications Bogotá Anatomía de una transformación: políticas de seguridad y convivencia ciudadana 1995-2003. Miguel Ceballos and Gerard Martin. January 2005. The publication of this book by Gerard Martin and Miguel Ceballos on the experience of Bogotá as an example of success in public management in the resolution of such difficult problems as those of public insecurity, is a source of special pride for the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University.  As the authors document, the extraordinary experience of Bogotá under the leadership of Mayors Peñalosa and Mockus demonstrates how the decided effort of local authorities, acting with perseverance and imagination, and transparently and democratically adding the input of the community, can contribute notably to a reduction in citizen insecurity.  This is a valuable experience for small cities, especially in conflict zones where there are today greater homicide rates.  The reduction in homicide rates in Bogotá is a paradigmatic example of the importance of public management in the resolution of the most difficult problems of our times. Prologue written by Arturo Valenzuela, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) in Georgetown University Handbooks "Programa Departamentos y Muncipios Seguros" Since 2001, Georgetown’s Colombia Program has been focusing on ways to strengthen municipal and departmental policies to prevent and reduce crime and violence. Crime, delinquency and terror in Colombia have regional and local dynamics; therefore, appropriate regional and local prevention policies are relevant in the context of a national security policy. Only recently, in the domestic security crisis, have local governments started to seriously carry out their constitutional responsibilities regarding security issues in their respective jurisdictions. Three documents have been published and distributed among mayors, governor and public officer at the different levels of government Handbook 1: Responsabilidades de los gobernadores y alcaldes en el manejo de la convivencia y seguridad ciudadana Handbook 2: “Instrumentos para el manejo y la gestión local de la  seguridad ciudadana y el orden público” (Tools for the management and local administration of citizen security and public order) Handbook 3: “Protocolo para la prevención y reacción frente a amenazas y atentados terroristas en el nivel local y departamental” (Protocol for prevention of and reaction to terrorist threats and attempts at the local and departmental level) Brochure Program Departamentos y Municipios Seguros, it has been completed, with the aim of disseminating the principal characteristics and results of this national strategy of coexistence and citizen security at the national and international level. Magazine trimestral “Departamentos y Municipios Seguros" Colombia: Between Terror and Reform. Miguel Ceballos and Gerard Martin, 2001, in Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Vol. II, 2, pp. 87-96. "Violences organisées et desorganisées en Colombie", in Revue Cultures & Conflits. Gerard Martin. 1997. No. special: "Survivre en situation de chaos". No. 24, pp. 195-238.