Analysis of five theses interpreting structural violence and the exercise of governance in the process of managing public security and violence prevention in the City of Santa Tecla

Abstract

The objective of this academic paper is to demonstrate an unconventional proposition for analytical interpretation of the way in which any effort to regenerate social fabric is followed by another process of social deconstruction. This study’s approach is based on the interdependent relationship between security and development, which exposes the collision of two forms of logic; that is, one regarding their interconnected nature, where there is a significant degree of social cohesion and regeneration that is indispensible to strengthen community organization, and is part of the content of the violence prevention strategies, and other citizen security and coexistence policies. Additionally, there is another destructuring logic, with the capacity to amass new social input at present to undertake future deconstruction. In this regard, the proposal is the existence of a phenomenon of legitimate summation that is unconscious of the future risk, and its empowerment of adverse effects on society, and its development in the matrix comprised of cooperation-cooptation-conflict.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/rpsp.v1i1.1389