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1. Urban violence as a contested domain
2. Toward a policy-relevant positioning of violence: the role of participatory research methodologies
3. The multiple complexity of daily violence in urban Colombian and Guatemalan communities
4. Community perceptions of the structural factors underlying political and economic violence
5. The family as a violent institution and the primary site of social violence
6. Substance abuse-linked violence relating to drug and alcohol consumption
7. Organized violence at the community level
8. Violence, social institutions and social capital in communities
9. Avoiding or confronting violence? Community perceptions of strategies and solutions Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index.