Media
I provide expert analysis and commentary on children, organised violence, crime, conflict and peacebuilding for television, radio, podcasts and print.
Areas of commentary
Selected media appearances
10 entries
Coverage of the multi-actor research, including the distinction between online captación and physical recruitment and evidence of armed-group messaging to students in Cauca.
Mathew Charles and Felipe Cortés discuss how children and teenagers are approached through digital platforms and the need for stronger prevention, reporting and institutional response.
Explains how coded language, emojis and social-media interactions are used to approach children and why digital recruitment must be understood alongside social and territorial conditions.
Explains why digital contact is a stage of captación preceding physical recruitment and why prevention requires critical thinking, digital literacy and institutional coordination.
An interview on why punitive youth justice can increase future risk and why responses should centre accountability, repair, reintegration and reduced repeat offending.
Discusses how children used as contract killers are shaped by adult exploitation, violent social environments and institutional failures.
Explains how poverty, limited educational access and fragile family environments can make criminal work appear to offer a way out, while promised payments are often withheld.
A feature on Sueños Sonoros, where 196 young people in the justice system created films and podcasts, and on journalism’s potential to restore dignity through listening.
A Swedish television feature on using rap, film and other creative methods to prevent gang involvement and support disengagement.
Explains how fragmentation of the cocaine trade and Ecuador’s strategic location transformed its ports while competition among local gangs intensified violence.
Languages