Faith-Based Organizations, Community Development, and Room of Manoeuvre in Gang Controlled Neighbourhoods in San Salvador
| Autor: | van der Borgh, Chris, LS History of Intern. Rel. & Global Gov., OGKG - Internationale en Politieke geschiedenis |
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| Přispěvatelé: | LS History of Intern. Rel. & Global Gov., OGKG - Internationale en Politieke geschiedenis |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Government
ngos business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention Identity (social science) Public relations Metropolitan area chronic violence gangs Faith Promotion (rank) prevention Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Faith-Based Organizations Sociology business Community development HV1-9960 Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform HN1-995 policy media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, Vol 2, Iss 2 (2021) Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2(2), 143 |
| ISSN: | 2516-7227 |
| Popis: | This paper aims to contribute to our understanding of the feasibility and effectiveness of development interventions in situations of chronic violence, paying particular attention to the capacity and room of manoeuvre of intervening organisations in contexts where illicit groups have built up a power position. It analyses the interventions of two faith-based NGOs (FBOs) that aim to reduce violence and promote community development in selected gang-controlled neighbourhoods of the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador (AMSS). Based on a literature study and data from fieldwork in several municipalities of the AMSS, it focuses on the ways the organisations navigate in extremely complex contexts. It is argued that the factors that contribute to the capacity of the FBOs to work in gang controlled neighbourhoods include their evangelical identity, the acceptance by and independence from gang and government, their longer-term engagement in selected neighbourhoods, and the combination of social interventions that have a local impact (education, healthcare) with the promotion of moral values. The paper also discusses some of the dilemmas and limitations of these kinds of approaches. |
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