Dr Alexandra Abello Colak (LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre) will be working with Dr Chris van der Borgh (Utrecht University) on a collaborative research project funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. The project, entitled ‘Local state-society transformations and Everyday Security Provisioning in Medellín and San Salvador’, will explore security governance in these Latin American cities from the perspective of particularly vulnerable communities. This one-year project will contribute to a better understanding of new forms of interaction between state and non-state actors and how these affect every day experiences of security and insecurity for people living in some of the most marginalised urban communities of Latin America.