Significant Principles
The term “garrison” refers to a community governed by one political group protected by force, as initially conceived. The first is the long-standing influence of violence on the two parties of politics, which have governed Jamaica again for the previous 70 years (Levy, 2009). The second is how vital the Conflict Management Initiative is regarding violence. The idea of community is crucial for social transformation because it makes it clear that some of the most significant self-stories must be altered. It is, therefore, necessary for people to revise their shared stories in order to effect social change. Additionally, there is evidence of a third change, still very nascent but possibly seismic away from the pattern of violence from recent studies on gangs and crime in Jamaica (Bakali & Wasty, 2020).
Putting deep economic and racial divisions aside, the problem is not just street violence, even though it is commonly cited as Jamaica’s top problem. Moreover, in Jamaica, disdain and mistrust of leading parties never have been higher.
Relevance to the Post-Pandemic Caribbean Society
The early history of Jamaica and other Caribbean islands is rooted in the production of sugar, which enriched Britain and Europe through enslaved Africans. After World War II, each of them, possibly only the British ones, entered the United States zone of influence, where they had never before been. People are starting to realize the two or more parties’ precarious situation due to two factors (Urbanik et al., 2020).
It is inescapable that reaching some degree of political forgiveness has minimal effectiveness in averting violence which is still entrenched in exclusionary tendencies that are insufficiently addressed by formalized political reform. A frame of reference restricted to the party political arena cannot comprehend the intricate interplay among political and lethal violence buried in the seismic dislocations as the character and distribution of violence transform through the shift.
Points of Agreement and Disagreement
One of the statements is to oppose reasoning and influence others through rational argument. Therefore, selecting an alternative from the available ones is a necessity. There are just two options: using violence or using charisma. Moreover, looking at Jamaican history from this perspective reveals that this is what has happened. The propensity for violence has become more pronounced in Jamaica and other parts of the world (Dussich, 2018). Instead of developing organically due to a democratic process, violence in political activities and constructing political garrisons were actively encouraged as tactical measures to gain or hold onto politics (Dussich, 2018). The tendency is to link the concentration of garrisons with the existence of criminal gangs. On the other side, criminal gangs have functioned and thrived in loosely structured garrisons for a while.
Utilization of Information on Professional and Personal Life
Violence inside a family, including abuse of children and elders and fierceness amongst intimate partners, is more obscured from the public eye than community brutality, particularly violence committed by youngsters. Additionally, the police and courts are frequently less willing or equipped to identify and address similar covert abuse. Whatever was available to fill the motivational void when politics and the church failed to provide any vision statement or the prospect of a brighter future was the wayward “badness” attitude centered on ever-more localized leaders. The mindset that doing awful things to show oneself is the only way to succeed is popular among young males.
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Urbanik, M.-M., Roks, R., Storrod, M. L., & Densley, J. (2020). Ethical and methodological issues in gang ethnography in the digital age: Lessons from four studies in an emerging field. Gangs in the Era of Internet and Social Media, 21–41. Web.