The politics of violence reduction: Making and unmaking the Salvadorean gang truce

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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.

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van der Borgh, C., & Savenije, W. (2019). The politics of violence reduction: Making and unmaking the Salvadorean gang truce. Journal of Latin American Studies, 51(4), 905–928. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X19000890

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