Peace Education Challenges towards the Creation of a Culture of Peace

These paper deals with peace education and the recognition of violence as a main problem towards the process of creating a culture of peace. The purpose of this essay is to generate a reflection about challenges –such as violence, faced by peace education in order to contribute to a process to creat...

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Author: Cerdas-Agüero, Evelyn
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2015
Country:Costa Rica
Institution:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repository:Portal de Revistas UNA
Language:Spanish
English
OAI Identifier:oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/6585
Online Access:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/EDUCARE/article/view/6585
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Education for peace
Latin America
violence
peace
culture of peace
Educación para la paz
América Latina
violencia
paz
cultura de paz
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Summary:These paper deals with peace education and the recognition of violence as a main problem towards the process of creating a culture of peace. The purpose of this essay is to generate a reflection about challenges –such as violence, faced by peace education in order to contribute to a process to create a culture of peace.  It suggests peace education as a pedagogical process for learning how not to learn and practice violence and to practice how to live in peace in any kind of human relationship. This paper concludes that violence expressions –either structural, direct or cultural, that has affected children, women and young people in Latin America determine the achievement of their human rights and the creation of a Culture of Peace. Therefore, a transformation process becomes necessary    -initially at individual level, in order to renew hope, recognize autonomy, construct life, think about the tenderness, and be solidary people.