Diálogos Comunitários: a atuação resolutiva do ministério público do estado de Minas Gerais em conflitos coletivos urbanos

Abstract

Community support is an institutional function of the Public Prosecutor's Office, which must be exercised to defend human rights, prioritizing the institution's resolutive action, according to its political-institutional profile enshrined in the 1998s Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil. In this regard, within the scope of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the State of Minas Gerais, the community support, attribution of organs for the execution of defence and promotion of human rights, is exercised primarily through collective legal protection and extrajudicial measures and is mainly related to social rights. In this context, the research that is the fruit of this study sought to investigate the resolving exercise of the granting of community support within the Public Ministry of the State of Minas Gerais, seeking to identify difficulties and limitations and discussing them from the theoretical framework of Community Social Psychology. The research empirical and qualitative was based on a case study of a program coordinated by the Public Ministry of the State of Minas Gerais in partnership with Cáritas Brasileira Regional of Minas Gerais, which is focused on the resolution of collective conflicts from the resolving exercise of the allocation of Community support. The process of construction and comparative analysis of the data was guided by the theoretical interactionist theoretical perspective of the GroundedTheory, by Kathy Charmaz. The data were constructed through participant-observation at community and institutional level, intensive interviews with members of the communities participating in this program, and a focus group with members of the technical team responsible for its operationalization. As support for the qualitative treatment of the data (codification, categorization and theorization), the software Atlas.ti (version seven) was used. The research resulted in the elaboration of three theoretical categories, namely "Suffering effects of the social-community imaginary", "Taking the risks of potential and multifaceted volatility" and "Dealing with the ambivalence of participation of community leaders". From the reflection on the theoretical propositions constituent of these three categories from the reference of Community Social Psychology, the research presents subsidies to overcome difficulties and limitations that cross the resolutive exercise of the attribution of community support. It is expected, therefore, that the research contributes to the improvement of this attribution from an emancipatory perspective and to the strengthening of the institutional action resolution