The Sertão of Non-Violence

Abstract

Violence is to subject that lacks reflections able to instigate the institutional actors and the critical sense in the population. In this sense, this article analyzes the functioning of interpersonal relationships with respect to physical violence, from its near absence in the semiarid region, specifically in the town of Gust, part of the municipality of Petrolina / PE, located in the backlands of Pernambuco, where there were only two murders in seven decades. Is based on the discursive representations on the issue of violence and the ways in presenting the social ties that reinforce the Community Elán.