Rethinking Peace and Policing in the Favelas in Rio de Janeiro

Description du projet

La sécurité communautaire dans les favelas de Rio

Marginalisées et criminalisées, les favelas de Rio de Janeiro sont confrontées à des problèmes de sécurité complexes. Pourtant, les alternatives communautaires sont prometteuses en termes de transformation. Soutenu par le programme Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie, le projet RECONSIDER explorera les initiatives de sécurité menées par la société civile dans ces quartiers. S’appuyant sur des données provenant de groupes tels que Coletivo Papo Reto, Observatório de Favelas et Redes da Maré, le projet organisera des entretiens, des groupes de discussion et des forums afin d’évaluer les alternatives non violentes au maintien de l’ordre et le potentiel de la police de proximité. Il analysera la manière dont les efforts de sécurité humaine interagissent avec les mécanismes de l’État, afin d’en tirer des enseignements applicables à d’autres modèles de maintien de l’ordre menés par la société civile.

Objectif

This project will explore bottom-up, civil-society-driven security alternatives in the favelas in Rio de Janeiro as marginalised, racialised and criminalised neighbourhoods, their transformative potential and their comparison to post-conflict community policing and security reform. The project is a global collaboration between NMBU, Norway and PUC-Rio, Brazil. It contains the following three research objectives: 1. To explore bottom-up, civil-society-driven security alternatives in the favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Data will be gathered through a participatory project with the favela organisations Coletivo Papo Reto, Observatório de Favelas and Redes da Maré, and will include 20 semi-structured interviews, discussion groups, participant observation and open forums for discussions on non-violent alternatives to policing and the potentials (or lack thereof) for community policing projects in the favelas. 2. Study where and how these efforts to ensure human security meet the state and its public security apparatus. Here, data will be gathered through participant observation with Coletivo Papo Reto, Observatório de Favelas and Redes da Maré, and include 20 semi-structured interviews with politicians, members of the judiciary and public security officials. 3. Bring lessons on community policing alternatives and interactions with the state from the favelas and see how they are translatable to other cases of civil-society led/engaged community policing projects. Data will be gathered from secondary sources case studies on post-conflict community policing at the ICT4COP Center at NMBU. The project contributes knowledge on civil society-led community policing in racialised, criminalised neighbourhoods, community alternatives from an intersectional, decolonial community perspective from the global south, and to the study of peace formation and hybridity in violent non-conflict contexts. It also explores innovative co-production through participatory research in the favelas.