Over the past six months there appears to have been an escalation in murders, revenge killings and attacks which is triggering talk of war between the police and the gangs.
The practitioner researcher, however, described the initiative as dialogue-triggering, a tug-of-war, and a gap-bridging process.
A direct connection, as envisaged in Peter George's 1958 novel Red Alert (later made into the film Dr Strangelove), might just prevent the accidental triggering of nuclear war.
Hassan's nationalist flourish, combining a claim of historic rights and tribal fealties with a hard-headed appraisal of the territory's rich phosphate deposits and offshore fishing grounds, triggered 16 years of war.
The first official trial for war crimes committed at Treblinka was held in Düsseldorf between 12 October 1964 and 24 August 1965, preceded by the 1951 trial of SS-Scharführer Josef Hirtreiter, which was triggered by charges of war crimes unrelated to his service at the camp.
"I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us.
By 2003, criminal gangs were fighting over territory and it was increasingly apparent that the main triggers of the civil war - poverty, discrimination, inequality and land rights - were largely unchanged.
That led to the more modern discovery of PTSD and what "triggers" those painful memories of war.
This would become one of the main triggers of the drug wars that have killed well over 100,000 people across Mexico since 2006.
