Sean Campbell and Topher McDougal talk about their investigation into the flow of guns from the U.S. to Mexico on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
University of San Diego
Strengthened by the Catholic intellectual tradition, we confront humanity’s challenges by fostering peace, working for justice and leading with love. With more than 8,000 students from 75 countries and 44 states, USD is the youngest independent institution on the U.S. News & World Report list of top 100 universities in the United States. USD’s eight academic divisions include the College of Arts and Sciences, the Knauss School of Business, the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, the School of Law, the School of Leadership and Education Sciences, the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, and the Division of Professional and Continuing Education. In 2021, USD was named a “Laudato Si’ University” by the Vatican with a seven-year commitment to address humanity’s urgent challenges by working together to take care of our common home.
Links
Articles
A yearlong investigation shows the depth of the gun trafficking problem and how ATF oversight of gun dealers can reduce trafficking to Mexico – when the agency has resources.
More than 135,000 weapons were illegally trafficked across the border to Mexico in 2022. Gun laws help stem the tide.
Some of the same people caught illegally trafficking firearms across the border to Mexico are also selling illicit drugs, including fentanyl, meth and heroin.
Independent gun dealers supplied 83% of crime guns seized in Mexico and traced back to purchases in the US. Chain stores supplied the other 17%.
Even when companies do not face legal liability, public pressure can help force a reckoning with complicity in genocide, slavery and other atrocities.
New research shows that when the whaling industry in the US produced more products, the proportion of slaves also declined in the 1700s and 1800s.
A physicist explains that the short answer is both … and neither.
Animals can be born with genetic or developmental issues that make it hard for them to live normal lives. They also can develop mental health problems in response to conditions around them.
It starts with better building policies that recognize future risks, but there are many other important steps.
Drowning, blunt force trauma and exposure to extreme weather are among the risks that migrants face making the dangerous journey across the US-Mexico border.
Hateful language used to demonize particular groups of people had been used long before the era of Donald Trump, including by the Nazis.
Les lois sur le bien-être animal ne protègent pas les invertébrés, mais il est prouvé que certains d'entre eux, comme les pieuvres, sont aussi intelligents que de nombreux mammifères.
Animal welfare laws don’t protect invertebrates, but there’s evidence that some, such as octopuses, are as intelligent as many mammals – even if their cognition takes very different forms.
Researchers surveyed hundreds of elected officials in three Southern California counties. They found 2 in 3 respondents had been threatened or abused – and that many worried for their safety.
Political polarization is at an all-time high. Students part of this University of San Diego Kroc School of Peace Studies course examine up close the country’s divides during their journey.
Movements like the Journey of Nishiyuu walk the land to reclaim culture and push for Indigenous nations’ rights.
The US homicide rate is far above the rate of other nations.
Liberated cities are prone to vigilante justice against those accused of conspiring with the enemy.
The politics of delivering aid in war zones are messy, the ethics fraught and the logistics daunting. But getting everything right is essential − and in this instance could save many Gazans’ lives.
Authors
-
Executive Director and Professor of Practice at Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace, University of San Diego
-
Associate provost, professor of politics, University of San Diego
-
Program Officer for Women, Peace and Security, University of San Diego
-
Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs, Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego
-
Assistant Professor of Engineering, University of San Diego
-
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of San Diego
-
Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego
-
Assistant Professor of Management, University of San Diego
-
Professor of Neuroscience, Cognition and Behavior, University of San Diego
-
Director, Violence, Inequality and Power Lab, Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego
-
Professor of Physics & Biophysics, Associate Provost for Engaged Scholarship, University of San Diego
-
Professor of Practice in Sociology, University of San Diego
-
Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution, Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego
-
University of San Diego
-
Professor of Economic Development & Peacebuilding, University of San Diego