This study explores the motives of the pacification process which has been taking place inside se... more This study explores the motives of the pacification process which has been taking place inside several slums (favelas) of Rio de Janeiro city in Brazil, prior to the realization of the global sport events in 2014 and 2016. A deeper analysis of such process denotes its major concerns with security aspects at the expense of development ones, raising suspicions about the sustainability of such "peace" and whose interests it serve. A similar dynamic is said to take place in conflict and post conflict realities in which the international community decides to intervene, and it is exposed through the liberal peace critique, illustrating what has been named a securitized model of development. The similarities in orientation and consequences of both peace processes are explored in the present study through the lenses of the security-development nexus debate, which helps to unveil their common driving forces: the need for the continuous reproduction of the current exclusionary neoliberal order. Whereas in Rio the pacification ensures security to the global sport events and to the expansion of the neoliberal values inside favelas, while it contains social tensions through a deficient social program, worldwide the liberal peace restrains threats coming from conflicting regions and guarantees new terrains for global capitalism, while it keeps a lid on social disorder through stopgap development initiatives. With such findings this study intends to highlight the need of a real transformation in the current "structural wealth creation system" in order for the achievement of sustainable peace in different sorts of conflicts, whose causes are often originated in the very logic of such system.
Level: MA Perspectives on Security and Development -PE 5045D Semester Two Module Leader: Neil Coo... more Level: MA Perspectives on Security and Development -PE 5045D Semester Two Module Leader: Neil Cooper 'The extent to which poverty contributes to risks of violent conflict in a country depends little on its absolute or average poverty levels'. Examine and assess the validity of this statement.
This study explores the motives of the pacification process which has been taking place inside se... more This study explores the motives of the pacification process which has been taking place inside several slums (favelas) of Rio de Janeiro city in Brazil, prior to the realization of the global sport events in 2014 and 2016. A deeper analysis of such process denotes its major concerns with security aspects at the expense of development ones, raising suspicions about the sustainability of such "peace" and whose interests it serve. A similar dynamic is said to take place in conflict and post conflict realities in which the international community decides to intervene, and it is exposed through the liberal peace critique, illustrating what has been named a securitized model of development. The similarities in orientation and consequences of both peace processes are explored in the present study through the lenses of the security-development nexus debate, which helps to unveil their common driving forces: the need for the continuous reproduction of the current exclusionary neoliberal order. Whereas in Rio the pacification ensures security to the global sport events and to the expansion of the neoliberal values inside favelas, while it contains social tensions through a deficient social program, worldwide the liberal peace restrains threats coming from conflicting regions and guarantees new terrains for global capitalism, while it keeps a lid on social disorder through stopgap development initiatives. With such findings this study intends to highlight the need of a real transformation in the current "structural wealth creation system" in order for the achievement of sustainable peace in different sorts of conflicts, whose causes are often originated in the very logic of such system.
Level: MA Perspectives on Security and Development -PE 5045D Semester Two Module Leader: Neil Coo... more Level: MA Perspectives on Security and Development -PE 5045D Semester Two Module Leader: Neil Cooper 'The extent to which poverty contributes to risks of violent conflict in a country depends little on its absolute or average poverty levels'. Examine and assess the validity of this statement.
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