Humanizing Security through Action-oriented Research in Latin America
Humanizing Security through Action-oriented Research in Latin America
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通过拉丁美洲以行动为导向的研究使安全人性化
DOI：
10.1111/dech.12689
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发表时间：
2021
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3
通讯作者：
Pearce J
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作者：
Pearce J
本文批判性地反思了使用面向行动的参与式研究来重新思考拉丁美洲的暴力和安全。作者利用了在哥伦比亚、萨尔瓦多、危地马拉、洪都拉斯、牙买加和墨西哥进行的12年（2008年至2020年）的此类研究，与生活在长期暴力和犯罪中的社区合作。尽管进行了创新试验，但该区域的安全政策和做法仍然主要是适得其反的军事化对策，未能解决暴力和犯罪问题。本文认为，为了挑战政治上强有力的惩罚性安全措施，并强调不安全的相互关联的社会和经济驱动因素，生活在这些现实中的社区需要发展自己的理解“安全”。这可以用来为可持续解决方案提供信息，以解决人们在实地的复杂不安全经历。本文通过参与性行动研究，将那些生活在长期暴力中的人的机构带入安全辩论。它表明，生活在这种暴力环境中的人们可以促进公共安全的公平、可及性，并能够保护他们，同时解决滋生暴力和犯罪的条件，而不滋生进一步的暴力。这就是所谓的“人性化安全”。
This article critically reflects on the use of action‐oriented participatory research to rethink violence and security in Latin America. The authors draw on 12 years of such research (2008‒20) in Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica and Mexico, working with communities living in the midst of chronic violence and criminality. Despite innovative experiments, security policies and practices in the region continue to be dominated by counterproductive militarized responses that have failed to address violence and crime. This article argues that in order to challenge politically potent punitive approaches to security and to highlight the interconnected social and economic drivers of insecurity, communities living these realities need to develop their own understanding of ‘security’. This can be used to inform sustainable solutions that address people's complex experiences of insecurity on the ground. The article brings the agency of those living amidst chronic violence into the security debate through participatory action research. It demonstrates that people living amidst such violence can contribute to making public security equitable, accessible and capable of protecting them while addressing the conditions that reproduce violence and crime without reproducing further violence. This is what is meant by ‘humanizing security’.