Mexico
Grupo Mexico
The IDCR has established a ‘Grupo Mexico’ to develop greater links and cooperation between the University of Essex and Mexican institutions.
Essex has been home to over 500 undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as has members of staff from Mexico.
Grupo Mexico is dedicated to carrying analysis of a wide range of topics relating to democracy and conflict in Mexico and providing educational, training and technical assistance to governmental and non-governmental organisations.
The Director of IDCR Professor Todd Landman carried out an assessment mission to Mexico City in late September and delivered a lecture on ‘Human Rights and Public Security’ at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) and to the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM).
New partnerships are being developed between the IDCR and the Secretaría de Seguridad Pública (SSP), Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Universidad Nacional De Mexico (UNAM), and the Representative of the United Nations of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The IDCR is undertaking a project for the Secretaría de Seguridad Pública entitled ‘Security Budgeting in Comparative Perspective’, which examines relative expenditure on public security in Mexico alongside other comparable upper middle-income countries.
The Mexican Society will host a symposium for all Mexican students funded by CONACYT in the United Kingdom 8-9 July. IDCR Director Todd Landman will make a presentation entitled ‘Framing the Fight: Public Security and Human Rights in Mexico’.
Click Framing the Fight-IX-Symposium-Landman for a PDF of the lecture slides
Along with colleagues from Mexico and the UK, the IDCR will host a conference on public security in Autumn 2011 to coincide with the 10th Anniversary of the Invasion of Afghanistan.
