Juventude e construção da paz: considerações sobre a violência e protagonismo juvenil no Brasil.

Abstract

Brazil is a country that has worrying lethal rates among young people between 15 and 29 years. According to the United Nations, such data may have a negative impact not only on the development of young people, but also on the country as a whole. In this context, the article presents the views of young people on both sides, those who suffer violence and those who are working to build peace at the local level. To better present where violence, peace, and youth are inserted in this scenario, the Peace Studies will be presented as base literature. Making it important to raise a literature that is scarce in Brazil, in this case, how young people feel in this violent environment the article uses an exploratory analysis as a method taking into account the little literature on the subject, With the aim of presenting both youth and their transforming action for peace in a local action for social transformation. Finally, this article aims to how impactful youthful lethal violence is and how young people themselves end up being transformed from peace in the same scenarios, with transformation from the bottom up, at the local level in order to transform their environment.