This volume is aimed at students, researchers, and practitioners in communication, international relations, management, and political science, who are interested in conflict and conflict resolution.

By reaching out to isolated groups without access to social services, community organisations have been helping alleviate poverty throughout Latin America. Adapting to the needs of communities, these organisations' have succeeded in mobilising the poor to find solutions to their own problems. Despite being smaller than corresponding state agencies, community organisations are generally more cost effective and efficient.