The National Policy on Violence Prevention and Security in Sport Spectacles: challenges and proposals

Abstract

In this paper, we developed a normative and ethical refl ection on the process of construction of the National Policy on Violence Prevention and Security in Sport Spectacles. To develop this refl ection, we adopted the following methodological procedures: a literature review, analysis of laws and documents and observations made during our participation in the public debate on violence in Brazilian football and also during exchanges and research apprenticeships conducted in Argentina and Germany, in 2013 and 2014. The text was organized into two interdependent parts: at fi rst, we discussed the main challenges to make the process in question more fair and democratic. Among the challenges addressed, we highlighted the challenge of creating special measures to encourage the inclusion of groups normally excluded from positions of power. Secondly, we presented and justifi ed some concrete measures to overcome these challenges. Among them, the establishment of local committees to prevent football violence, the strengthening and democratization of the National Commission on Violence Prevention and Security in Sport Spectacles (CONSEGUE), of the ministries of Justice and Sports, the creation of the fi gure of ombudsfan, the strengthening of dialogue with the independent associations of supporters and the organizations representing the torcidas organizadas, the training of its leaders, offering them the cultural resources needed to face the problems of everyday lives of these torcidas and needed to the creative and peaceful transformation of the violent confl icts between them, the recognition of less hegemonic forms of discourse, allowing the fans to speak in his own voice, and the creation of the fi gure of the moderator who does Socratic relief work to the word in CONSEGUE.