Organizações regionais e promoção da paz: a criação do Departamento contra o Crime Organizado Transnacional da Organização dos Estados Americanos (OEA)

Abstract

This article seeks to understand what motivated the creation of the Department for Combating Transnational Organized Crime, in 2016, understanding the transnational dynamics of violence and crime in Latin America, and how the OAS is inserted in this context. Analyzing how the processes of creation of departments in the OAS occur and mapping and analyzing the reasons for the creation of DCOT, understanding how it happened, and what changes or influences occurred in the transnationalization of organized crime. Additionally, exploratory bibliographic surveys will be used with a focus on critical peace studies, as well as the observation of data on the current context of public security in the Latin American region. In this way, it is expected to demonstrate the relevance of having been carried out through adjustments to the institutional design of the Organization, supported by the perception of Organized Crime as a threat to peace, and the need to coordinate the efforts of the Secretary General to combat it.