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2 results foundAuthor: Kurtenbach, Sabine Title: Youth Violence as a Scapegoat - Youth in Post-War Guatemala Summary: The present study is part of the research project on “Social and Political Fractures after Wars: Youth Violence in Cambodia and Guatemala”. The project is financed by the German Foundation for Peace Research and is located at the Institute for Development and Peace at the University of Duisburg-Essen. The project aims at explaining different levels of youth violence in two post-war societies whose processes of war termination are regarded as successful. However, both societies face serious problems of post-war development that are closely related to the experiences of war and war termination. While Cambodia’s democratization process is considered more or less as a failure, Guatemala suffers from levels of violence higher than during most of the war. The differences between both countries in levels of violence and mechanisms of violence control are also visible in the incidence of youth violence. This working paper presents the findings of the case study on Guatemala. While there have been abundant discussions on youth violence all over Central America most of these studies only indirectly relate youth violence to the experience of war and widespread violence. Following the focus of the conceptual frame on youth violence in post-war societies presented in Working Paper 1 and based on the analysis of post-war fractures in working paper 3, this study looks at youth violence under the perspective of continuity and change. After analysing the involvement of youths in war and violence and the consequences those experiences have on young people different life-worlds for post-war youths will be investigated. Youth violence in Guatemala is neither as widespread as public discussions suggest nor can most youth violence be contributed to organized gangs. The disaggregation of youth violence according to different causes, dynamics and life-worlds shows that youth violence mostly serves as a scapegoat and as an excuse to maintain the exclusive societal status quo. Details: Duisburg, Germany: Institute for Development and Peace, 2008. 34p. Source: INEF Working Paper No. 5: Internet Resource: Accessed February 7, 2012 at Year: 2008 Country: Germany URL: Shelf Number: 124028 Keywords: JuvenilesViolence (Cambodia) (Guatemala) |
Author: Kurtenbach, Sabine Title: Youth Violence in Post-War Societies - Conceptual Considerations on Continuity and Change of Violence: Social and Political Fractures after Wars: Youth Violence in Cambodia and Guatemala Summary: The present study is part of the research project on “Social and Political Fractures after Wars: Youth Violence in Cambodia and Guatemala”. The project is financed by the German Foundation for Peace Research and is located at the Institute for Development and Peace at the University of Duisburg-Essen. The project aims at explaining different levels of youth violence in two post-war societies whose processes of war termination are regarded as successful. However, both societies face serious problems of post-war development that are closely related to the experiences of war and war termination. While Cambodia’s democratisation process is considered more or less as a failure, Guatemala suffers from levels of violence higher than during most of the war. The differences between both countries in levels of violence and mechanisms of violence control are also visible in the incidence of youth violence. The project aims to explain these differences through the contextualisation of youth violence. Thus the main focus is directed at the societal and political fractures war and war termination cause for youth and their life-worlds. The working hypotheses were related to differences according to a) the levels of social differentiation; b) the relationship between political and economic power; c) normative frameworks; and d) the sequencing of post-war developments (namely between liberalisation and stabilisation). This approach has methodological consequences insofar as different levels of youth violence are what we seek to explain. The perspective of the actors themselves is beyond our approach. After having identified the relevant fractures this would be the task of further research. This working paper introduces a conceptual framework for the analysis of both post-war societies and youth violence. This conceptual framework then serves as basis for the comparison of post-war developments in Cambodia and Guatemala with a focus on violence control and public security (working papers no. 2 and 3). The topic of youth violence will be addressed in working papers no. 4 and 5. The working papers will be followed by a comparison of the case studies and an outline of consequences for future research (working paper no. 6). Details: Duisburg, Germany: Institute for Development and Peace, 2008. 43p. Source: Project Working Paper No. 1: Internet Resource: Accessed February 14, 2012 at http://www.humansecuritygateway.info/documents/DSF_SocialPoliticalFracturesAfterWarsYouthViolence_Cambodia_Guatemala.pdf Year: 2008 Country: International URL: http://www.humansecuritygateway.info/documents/DSF_SocialPoliticalFracturesAfterWarsYouthViolence_Cambodia_Guatemala.pdf Shelf Number: 113633 Keywords: JuvenilesViolence (Cambodia) (Guatemala) |