On the move

report of a collective experience of resistance to violence in Ceará

Abstract

This article proposes to share the history of the Movement Every Life Matters: The University in Preventing and Coping with Violence in Ceará (Movimento Cada Vida Importa: A Universidade na Prevenção e no Enfrentamento da Violência no Ceará – MCVI) in its first year of activities. Initially, the emergence conditions and the primary principles of the MCVI are addressed. Next, the scenario of violence in the State of Ceará is contextualized in 2018, with critical data and questions about its new manifestations – such as the vertiginous increase in the number of girl homicides. The auscultation of contexts and the listening to various social players have been constantly considered in the actions of this group and they are exposed through axial dimensions: a) awareness-raising; b) mobilization; c) education; d) articulation; and e) incidence. In the end, this study presents some challenges for the MCVI in 2019, by considering the political scenario changes and the state’s public security crisis in January. It is noticed that the MCVI recognizes the need to obtain greater capillarity in Higher Education institutions (HEIs), both in terms of its expansion to a greater number of teaching units and fields of knowledge and the inclusion of other social players from HEIs – like technical-administrative civil servants and support workers. This is the MCVI on the move.