Brazilian Peacekeeping? Counterinsurgency and Police Reform in Port-au-Prince and Rio de Janeiro

Schuberth, Moritz

doi:10.1080/13533312.2019.1623675

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“…Indeed, some residents might see CAGs as legitimate defenders of their community against other CAGs and abusive state security forces (Arias and Barnes, 2017, p. 452). This is notably the case within marginalised communities whose experience of the state has been limited to heavy‐handed raids that result in civilian casualties due to stray bullets (Schuberth, 2019). Barnes (2017) maintains that CAGs in Latin America are often involved in state‐building activities, especially at the micro level, whereas Kalyvas (2015) argues that CAGs in Latin America have effectively replaced rebel groups as the main challenge to the state's monopoly on violence.…”

Section: Cags Communities and The Statementioning

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Negotiating humanitarian space with criminal armed groups in urban Latin America

Lucchi¹,

Schuberth

2023

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Humanitarian and development agencies intervening in Latin American cities increasingly face the challenge posed by criminal armed groups (CAGs). Yet, there is a need for evidence‐based comparative studies on how international agencies deal with them. Drawing on data collected in Colombia, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, and Mexico, this paper presents a novel typology of humanitarian organisations' access strategies that distinguishes between different levels of interaction with CAGs. The paper shows how humanitarian agencies assess a variety of risks and balance the potential consequences of their engagement with CAGs with the need to maintain constructive and trustful relationships with the state and the community with which they work. It finds that indirect dialogue or negotiation with CAGs via community leaders who act as intermediaries might provide a low‐risk alternative to direct negotiation with CAG leaders, provided that ‘do no harm’ and humanitarian protection considerations vis‐à‐vis communities and intermediaries play a central role.

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Negotiating humanitarian space with criminal armed groups in urban Latin America

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Schuberth

2023

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“…Like the UPP, the MINUSTAH approach followed globally diffused clear-hold-build tactics of peacebuilding and counterinsurgency. After a violent "taking over" of a particular territory, these tactics combine a permanent military or police presence with a (often limited) provision of social services and infrastructure for the local population (Schuberth 2019). While critics problematise this "security-first" approach as justifying police and military violence as a pre-requisite for peace and development (Parra 2020), under such framework even the provision of social services can have a military purpose.…”

Section: Brazil: Transnational Reverberations Of the Urban Frontiermentioning

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Racial Frontiers: Hemispheric Logics of Haitians’ Displacement and Asylum in the Americas

Balaguera,

Schwartzman,

van Isschot

2023

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While international asylum law includes race as the first protected category—followed by religion, nationality, particular group membership, and political opinion—Haitians’ ongoing racialised persecution and denial of refuge across the Americas reveals the failures of this framework. Drawing on academic literature, documentary evidence, and primary sources, we analyse the racial and neocolonial logics constituting Haitians’ experiences at home and as migrants through the Americas. Focusing on Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico as nodes of migration trajectories, we argue that Haitians confront a “hemispheric frontier regime”. Unlike a single border that impedes passage, this multilayered frontier regime constantly uproots Haitians, even while states evade their responsibilities vis‐à‐vis asylum seekers. Over time, mutually reinforcing frontier logics of policing, dispossession, extraction, and empire at various scales—urban, domestic, transnational—structure Haitians’ and other migrants’ racialised exclusion from rights regimes across geographies from Haiti to South, Central, and North America.

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Leiden Journal of International Law

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Brazilian Peacekeeping? Counterinsurgency and Police Reform in Port-au-Prince and Rio de Janeiro

Cited by 10 publications

References 47 publications

Negotiating humanitarian space with criminal armed groups in urban Latin America

Negotiating humanitarian space with criminal armed groups in urban Latin America

Racial Frontiers: Hemispheric Logics of Haitians’ Displacement and Asylum in the Americas

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