The #GIResilience Project By the global iNitiative against transNational organized crime

RESILIENCE

re·sil·ience

/rəˈzilyəns/

1. The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness
2. The ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape
In SINALOA, one of Mexico´s most VIOLENT states and home of one of the most POWERFUL CRIMINAL organizations in the world,

ARTISTS are turning abandoned POLICE stations into community centers to offer CHILDREN alternatives to the ruling NARCO-culture.

The MOTHERS of those abducted by ORGANIZED CRIME, too afraid to report to authorities, are DIGGING UP bodies themselves, LOOKING for their loved ones.

GIRLS are BIKING around the city at NIGHT to empower other WOMEN to feel SAFER.

DOCTORS are tired of being THREATENED, KIDNAPPED or murdered by organized crime. They are PROTESTING, demanding AUTHORITIES to protect them while hospitals are creating their own SECURITY protocols.

A small NEWSPAPER insists on INVESTIGATING stories about drugs and crime, in spite of threats from NARCOS and GOVERNMENT officials ALIKE.

Local BUSINESSES are pitching in to PROTECT the ENVIRONMENT and to offer ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOODS in places where the drug trade was the only option.

All over the world, people are enduring the tragic consequences of organized crime.

But somehow, COMMUNITIES are learning to SURVIVE.
Their responses are POWERFUL, INSPIRING and worth looking at.

The #GIresilience Project is working in fragile zones to investigate the sources of COMMUNITY RESILIENCE:

To bring LOCAL actors into the GLOBAL debate

To engage the INTERNATIONAL community in creating ENVIRONMENTS that MITIGATE the threats of organized crime,

where all can have a chance to THRIVE.

Created By
Siria Gastelum
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Created with images by Siria Gastelum, RECUPERARTE, stevepb - "drugs cocaine user" • Meditations - "agent armed armour" • diegoattorney - "defense attorney defense lawyer criminal defense lawyer"

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