Resources

This is a list of suggested sources:

For reading

Wikipedia's List of conflicts in South America
Allvoices' South America Conflict and Tragedy news
America's Quarterly
Blog about Latin America (Two Week's Notice)
The Economist's America section
Upsidedown World
Inside on Conflict (about Colombia and Guatemala only)
Latin American Bureau
Washington Office on Latin America
Deutsche Welle Americas
Crisis Group Latin America
Global Voices Latin America

For those of you who want to do a bit more than reading:

Global Conflicts Portal


That is for starters!
I hope to grow the list a bit more. If you have some suggestions please leave them in the comments section. Thank you!

Understanding Social Conflict in Latin America

Here is once again the link to the document I sent around to inspire some topics for presentations.

Its introduction reads:

The Latin American countries with greatest numbers of conflicts are those with broad social inequalities and governments with limited capacity to manage unrest. The report titled Understanding Social Conflict in Latin America reveals that social, institutional and cultural tensions in Latin America are numerous, compared to other regions, and are characterized by a high degree of citizen participation. According to the report, Bolivia, Peru, and Argentina were the countries with the highest number of social conflicts (over 200 each), while those with the lowest levels of unrest were Costa Rica, Chile, and El Salvador, with an average of 58 conflicts each.  The report examined more than 2,300 social conflicts in the region by monitoring 54 newspapers in 17 countries between October 2009 and September 2010, and did not cover other conflicts associated with organized crime, drug trafficking, guerrilla movements or wars.

I hope you find it useful!