| dc.description.abstract | In the course of modernity, security has tended to become a phenomenon increasingly difficult to conceptualize, theorize, and materialize in efficient strategies in the face of threat. This complexity acquired by security has been the product of the emergence of actors who have managed to snatch the monopoly of force from the Nation States with the purpose of establishing subversive political projects, or else, overcoming the laws and security authorities to put in progress illicit lucrative activities. When dealing with illicit actors in the carrying of arms from the point of view of the Nation State (and its legality and legitimacy), it would not be correct to appeal to the concept of "use of force" to refer to the coercive methods of these, but, It is proposed to use the concept "use of violence".
The research project "The entropy of the use of violence: an approach to understanding the transformation of security in modernity" seeks to use the concept of entropy (used in astronomy) as an analog tool to help understand how possession and use of weapons as a form of coercion passes from a specific unit of energy (Nation State), until reaching a point of atomization and volatility represented in revolutionary groups, secessionists, national liberation, terrorists, lone wolves, anarchists, organized crime gangs , and companies in the category of Private Military Contractors.
The lack of control over the illegal trafficking of small arms, light weapons, ammunition or explosive devices during the Cold War was not the only reason. This is a phenomenon that is directly related to technological advances in computers, the ability to manufacture improvised explosive devices and weapons with homemade supplies, to convert tools from public space and daily use into weapons, and the advance of the privatization of war.
Now, based on the above, it is relevant to analyze what has been the impact of this mutation process on the State, national and human value of security. | |
