Local non-violent strategies amid Guatemala's post-accord violence: understanding the potential and limitations in poor urban neighbourhoods
Local non-violent strategies amid Guatemala's post-accord violence: understanding the potential and limitations in poor urban neighbourhoods
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危地马拉协议后暴力中的当地非暴力策略：了解贫困城市社区的潜力和局限性
DOI：
10.1080/21647259.2023.2251283
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发表时间：
2023
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1.3
通讯作者：
Herrera Kelly D
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作者：
Herrera Kelly D
受暴力影响社区的居民对解决不安全问题的影响尚未得到充分探讨，特别是在犯罪暴力中。在无冲突的情况下，鉴于犯罪集团的社会控制和施加暴力的能力，犯罪个人的非暴力行动能否改变他们的暴力环境？本文调查了协议后危地马拉的两个城市社区，证明居民如何参与暴力破坏，打破一般的自我保护策略——沉默、回避和流离失所——以主动应对当地暴力。这样，居民可以切实改善安全状况，促进凝聚力、社会资本和非正式领导，从而促进进一步的集体行动。这篇文章引用了47次采访，并结合了警方的数据和书面证据。这篇文章为与犯罪集团的非暴力接触这一未被充分探索的现象提供了新的经验证据。从概念上讲，本文提出了新兴的暴力破坏概念，将其作为一种独特的代理形式和一个既不忽视也不夸大基层战略影响的有用框架。
The impact residents of violence-affected communities can have on addressing insecurity is underexplored, particularly amid criminal violence. In non-conflict contexts, can non-violent actions by committed individuals transform their violent environments given criminal groups’ social control and capacity to exert violence? Investigating two urban neighbourhoods in post-accord Guatemala, the article evidences how residents engage in violence disruption, breaking generalised self-protection strategies – silence, avoidance and displacement – to proactively address local violence. In doing so, residents can attain tangible security improvements and foster cohesion, social capital and informal leadership – facilitating further collective action. The article draws on 47 interviews, triangulated with police data and documentary evidence. The article contributes novel empirical evidence on the underexplored phenomenon of non-violent engagement with criminal groups. Conceptually, the article advances the emerging concept of violence disruption as a distinct form of agency and a useful framework to neither overlook nor overstate the impact of grassroots strategies.