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A new book is, actually, a guideline to reshape environmental conflicts and to sustain a non-violent life.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   SANTA CRUZ, California – Latin America seems to be the deadliest region in the world for defending the environment. Since 2012, Global Witness , "specifically ... has identified Brazil, Honduras, and Peru as places where this issue concentrates," University of California in Santa Cruz (UCSC)'s Michael Wilson Becerril states in his doctoral thesis, now a book titled Resisting Extractivism , released through Vanderbilt University Press.   It took Wilson almost one year and a half of more than 250 interviews with mining executives and managers, community leaders, local people, journalists, academics, and anyone who had something to say, especially about four paradigmatic social conflicts caused by extractive industries in Northern Peru — mining , to be concrete.   "One-third of the world’s mining investment concentrates in Lat...