Conflict Management and Militarization of Schools in Distrito Federal: Is it Time to Call the Police?
School Violence; Conflict Management; Militarization; Military
Police; Federal District.
This project aims to investigate the approaches used by civic-military management
schools and civil management schools to deal with conflicts in their environments. As a premise, I will observe what strategic management differences are adopted by these institutions. I will observe if there is a search for uniformity of behaviors, the exclusion of students as a way to manage conflicts (even if the legislation imposes that there is no expulsion, but rather a transfer that is still a form of exclusion), if there is a prioritization of exhausting the available tools before adopting measures external to the institution, such as referral to the police station or guardianship council.
The choice of families for one or another type of school, with these two forms of management, is also
part of the analysis. It is important to understand what are the intentions, expectations, frustrations, and
positive responses regarding the way these schools deal with conflicts and ensure the safety of students.
Through field research, which will include interviews, observations, and application of questionnaires
with members of the school community of institutions that adopt or not the civic-military management,
intending to collect information on how relationships are established in these environments (mainly in
relation to conflicts and cases of violence). In this way, I will observe the individuals belonging to these
school environments (teachers, managers, military police, students, relatives... that is, those involved in
cases of conflicts that may occur in the school environment) to obtain a deeper understanding of the
complexity of this phenomenon, which emerges as one of the main research topics in the area of
education and violence.