Rede Juventude Viva do RN: enfrentamento ao genocídio da juventude

Abstract

This work aimed to investigate the Rede Juventude Viva do RN (RJV RN)’s acting in confrontation of youth genocide, more specifically: to describe its composition, objectives and proposed strategies to confront youth genocide; to describe actions effectively developed and articulated by the Rede to this reality; to identify and discuss limits and possibilities in the Rede’s acting. Guarded the ethical cares, participant observation, field diaries, semi-structured interviews and document analysis were used for this study – in which eight members of RJV RN participated in observations of meetings and interventions, as well as in the interviews. The obtained results were submitted to thematic content analysis. The RJV RN arised inspired by the Plano Juventude Viva (PJV), during national and local mobilizations, groups and events about the young people’s rights, presenting a dual identity, using resources from small contributions and thinking interventions for all the state. It integrated initiatives by/to/with youths and realized a lot of actions, from political incidence for the PJV adherence and implementation, to training involving young people in these communities. It was considered a national model in confrontation of youth genocide. Recently it has undergone a process of demobilization and emptying, stagnating the activities up to the present, because of transformations in the national political situation and internal organizational factors. However, it presents possibilities, from its restructuring, resumption of partners’ contacts, return of meetings and activities, to the alignment between the genocide agenda and several other agendas and emerging mobilizations in the national scene since its creation etc.