Construir paz y trasformar conflictos. Algunas claves desde la educación, la investigación y la cultura de paz

Construir paz y trasformar conflictos. Algunas claves desde la educación, la investigación y la cultura de paz
Author: Gerardo Pérez Viramontes
Publisher: ITESO
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 6078528882

En un mundo convulso, donde la violencia es un fenómeno cotidiano que, según la oms, deja más de 1.4 millones de muertos al año, promover la paz se vuelve un imperativo. Esta obra busca alejarse lo más posible del enfoque violentológico, para articular un discurso en favor de la convivencia por medios pacíficos, mediante la cultura de paz y la educación para la paz, así como en distintos escenarios, como alternativa para enfrentar la violencia enraizada en las sociedades contemporáneas. En estas páginas, Gerardo Pérez Viramontes vierte 25 años de reflexiones teóricas, intervenciones prácticas y discusiones en el aula: desde su experiencia en aquel año de 1994 en que se exigía el cese al fuego entre el ezln y el Ejército mexicano, hasta el empoderamiento de diversas agrupaciones sociales que han trabajado en los últimos años en su ciudad, Guadalajara (México), a favor de una movilidad no motorizada, los derechos sexuales y reproductivos, o la defensa del territorio. Si bien este libro está dirigido principalmente para estudiosos del tema, se recomienda su lectura para todos aquellos interesados en hacer las paces, habitantes de esta sociedad, ya que, en muchos sentidos, como dice el autor, “la construcción de la paz es algo que depende de nosotros mismos”.

Encyclopedia of Peace Education

Encyclopedia of Peace Education
Author: Monisha Bajaj
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2008-05-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1607528614

The rise of peace education both in scholarship and in practice has yielded numerous documents, websites, and publications with often divergent perspectives on what the field is, does, and means. The Encyclopedia of Peace Education provides a comprehensive overview of the scholarly developments in the field to date, so as to provide a common denominator for the various actors involved in advancing peace education internationally. Thus, this edited volume serves as an essential reference guide that traces the history and emergence of the field, highlights foundational concepts, contextualizes peace education practice across international and disciplinary borders, and suggests new directions for peace educators. From core conceptual perspectives to the moral and spiritual foundations of the field to the role of the United Nations, the Encyclopedia grounds peace education in a solid theoretical and practical framework through the writings of the field’s most renowned scholars. This volume will target undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars and practitioners working in international and non-governmental organizations in the field of peace education.

The Territorial Peace

The Territorial Peace
Author: Douglas M. Gibler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2012-09-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107016215

Douglas M. Gibler argues that threats to homeland territories force domestic political centralization within the state. Using an innovative theory of state development, he explains patterns of international conflict and democracy in the world over time.

Successful Educational Actions for Inclusion and Social Cohesion in Europe

Successful Educational Actions for Inclusion and Social Cohesion in Europe
Author: Ramon Flecha (Ed.)
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2014-11-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319111760

This monograph analyses and describes successful educational actions with a specific focus on vulnerable groups (i.e. youth, migrants, cultural groups e.g. Roma, women, and people with disabilities). Concrete data that shows success in school performance in subject matters such as math or language will be provided, as well as children, teachers and families accounts of the impact of this success. Alongside, there is an analysis of the relationship between these children’s educational performance with their inclusion or exclusion from different areas of society (i.e. housing, health, employment, and social and political participation). Many studies have already diagnosed and described the causes of educational and social exclusion of these vulnerable groups. This monograph, however, provides solutions, that is, actions for success identified through the INCLUD-ED project, thus providing both, contrasted data and solid theoretical background and development. Some examples of these actions are interactive groups (or heterogeneous grouping in the classroom with reorganisation of human resources), extension of the learning time, homework clubs, tutored libraries, family and community educative participation, family education, or dialogic literary gatherings. All these actions have been defined as successful educational actions, which mean that they lead to both efficiency and equity. Finally, recommendations for policy and practice are included and discussed.

International Community Psychology

International Community Psychology
Author: Stephanie Reich
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2007-07-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0387495002

This is the first in-depth guide to global community psychology research and practice, history and development, theories and innovations, presented in one field-defining volume. This book will serve to promote international collaboration, enhance theory utilization and development, identify biases and barriers in the field, accrue critical mass for a discipline that is often marginalized, and to minimize the pervasive US-centric view of the field.

Democracy in Mexico

Democracy in Mexico
Author: Pablo González Casanova
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1970
Genre: Mexico
ISBN:

Failed Statebuilding

Failed Statebuilding
Author: Oliver Richmond
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0300175310

Western struggles—and failures—to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended beneficiaries better or worse. In this groundbreaking book, Oliver Richmond asks why statebuilding has been so hard to achieve, and argues that a large part of the problem has been Westerners’ failure to understand or engage with what local peoples actually want and need. He interrogates the liberal peacebuilding industry, asking what it assumes, what it is getting wrong, and how it could be more effective.

Diversity in Schools

Diversity in Schools
Author: Richard C. Hunter
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2012-09-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412987644

Written and signed by experts in the topic, this volume in the point/counterpoint Debating Issues in American Education reference series tackles the subject of diversity in schools.