The Politics of Violence Reduction: Making and Unmaking the Salvadoran Gang Truce

G.J.C. van der Borgh; W. Savenije

doi:10.1017/S0022216X19000890

The Politics of Violence Reduction: Making and Unmaking the Salvadoran Gang Truce

G.J.C. van der Borgh
, W. Savenije

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	905-928
Number of pages	24
Journal	Journal of Latin American Studies
Volume	51
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X19000890
Publication status	Published - 23 Aug 2019

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gang truce
violence reduction
hybrid security governance
truce politics
strategic action field

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