Conselhos Comunitários de Segurança: a violência em diálogo políticas governamentais e suas práticas

Abstract

The community councils of public security in Rio de Janeiro represent an institutional change in the area of public safety policies. This is an open channel that allows the participation at the local level, characterized by the pursuit of the establishment of different patterns of interaction between government and society around the theme of security. Based on the recent analysis of civil society, in which it is being treated increasingly as approximate instance of government. The paper proposes an analysis exposing political and social community council Meier neighborhood and its environs, located in the northern zone of Rio de Janeiro. This region is known for social contrasts and high levels of violence, by concentrating, at once, a prosperous trade, large numbers of people and various disadvantaged communities dominated by drug trafficking and weapons. The experience of this council will be known that the consolidation of this arena depends not only on the presence of social organizations and representatives are able to claim multiple interests, but also the commitment of the government to recognize these arenas as privileged channels in the relationship between government and society. The board is characterized as an innovative tool as it is a contentious issue as public safety. This arena allows closer ties between community and institutions historically closed as the military and civil police. The exercise of the community councils of public safety can contribute to furthering a more participatory democracy in Brazil and a more porous state, as it bets on the involvement of civil society a more organized and active, an Executive Branch and government agencies more willing to dialogue.