TY - JOUR
T1 - The Politics of Violence Reduction: Making and Unmaking the Salvadoran Gang Truce
AU - van der Borgh, G.J.C.
AU - Savenije, W.
PY - 2019/8/23
Y1 - 2019/8/23
N2 - This paper analyses a government-facilitated truce, begun in 2012, between El Salvador’s three principal street gangs. Using field theory and securitisation theory, it maps the evolution of the truce, distinguishing between the three related processes of making the deal, keeping the truce, and resisting it. It analyses the complex and intriguing political processes in which various actors, such as gang leaders, government officials and international organisations, interacted with each other and made deals about the use and visibility of violence and ways of diminishing, preventing or hiding it.
AB - This paper analyses a government-facilitated truce, begun in 2012, between El Salvador’s three principal street gangs. Using field theory and securitisation theory, it maps the evolution of the truce, distinguishing between the three related processes of making the deal, keeping the truce, and resisting it. It analyses the complex and intriguing political processes in which various actors, such as gang leaders, government officials and international organisations, interacted with each other and made deals about the use and visibility of violence and ways of diminishing, preventing or hiding it.
KW - gang truce
KW - violence reduction
KW - hybrid security governance
KW - truce politics
KW - strategic action field
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-american-studies/article/politics-of-violence-reduction-making-and-unmaking-the-salvadorean-gang-truce/3C937A13EB0FE2E6836C046AD357D92F
U2 - 10.1017/S0022216X19000890
DO - 10.1017/S0022216X19000890
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-216X
VL - 51
SP - 905
EP - 928
JO - Journal of Latin American Studies
JF - Journal of Latin American Studies
IS - 4
ER -
