Iniciativas Ciudadanas de Seguridad y Convivencia en la comuna 10 de la ciudad de Pasto - Nariño, 2016-2019

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to analyze the citizen initiatives that generate human security in the commune 10 of the city of Pasto, through the description of the security context in its different dimensions: economic, food, health, environment, personal, community, women. and political, the identification of citizen initiatives according to their typology and their contrast with the indices of peaceful coexistence in the commune. It arises from the need to analyze initiatives inspired by a new approach that responds to nonday-to-day threats and vulnerabilities, with a multidimensional, multisectoral and comprehensive nature and with a human rights perspective, different from the militaristic approach. It is a qualitative investigation whose problem is approached from an ethnographic design combined with documentary design, through the use of mixed methods such as interpretive, logical inference and action participation research. For the collection of information, the structured interview, participatory workshop, participant observation and documentary review were used, with the participation of 22 community and community leaders in the sector. As a result of the research, a context of high insecurity was identified in the different dimensions whose threats have enabled the emergence of 26 citizen initiatives that generate security between 2016 and 2019, 17 of them categorized by irruption and 9 by invitation, which may be grouped into community security agendas.