The Worldization of Violence and Injustice

Abstract

In this new 21st century, en route towards the worldization of society, a number of social issues of global scope are emerging, and some of them interfere with the institutionalization of democracy. These new global social issues express themselves in the world's societies, in articulate fashion but with specific variations: they are complex problems because several dimensions of social life have come to be harshly questioned, among them social ties among people. Accordingly, forms of violence acquire new dimensions and have spread throughout society. There is a multiplicity of types of social norms, a multiplicity of forms of violence presenting themselves to contemporary societies - ecological violence, social exclusion, violence between genders, racisms, school violence - and all come together in a process of disintegration of citizenship. The emergence of a concept of citizen security in the worldization perspective assumes the social construction of a democratic, non-violent, and multiculturalist police force, based on a return to the goal of policing as a contribution to governability imbued with concern for the emancipatory practices of the groups of citizens in their daily lives. It would then become possible to imagine the construction of a transnational or world citizenship, characterized by institutional creation and by the spread and communication of social, legal, police, and symbolic practices of an innovative nature and planetary scope.