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Theology and Peace are categories that are closely related; sometimes ambiguous, especially when the belief in God is used as a pretext for war. However, the history of theological reflection enriches the action of Christians in conflict situations. Theological education, from a transforming critical point of view, is called upon to propose values for the different beliefs that contribute to coexistence, construction and, consolidation of Peace. This research is a contribution of the research seedbed “Theology and Society” of the Universidad Santo Tomás. From the qualitative paradigm and with a hermeneutical approach, as well as applying a documentary analysis as a method; relationships between Education, Theology, and Peace are established. Challenges are proposed for the teaching of Theology for Peace, from the Sacred Scripture, the contribution of Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas and Kant, the Magisterium of the Church and some contemporary theologians, philosophers, and pedagogues. The study concludes that Theological Education is called to explore a transforming language and commitment that dignifies the person, promoting the development of environments that lead to the construction of a Culture of Peace. Finally, the study proposes a series of challenges for the formation of theology students, which promote the transformation of the subjects as agents of change for the construction of scenarios of Peace and the promotion of environments of non-violence, where the occurrence of the God’s Kingdom is recognized.

The purpose of this article is to measure the level of impact of the social factors of the Culture of Peace promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -UNESCO- for the transformation of social conflicts as it applies to the structural violence experienced by the Central American migrant population of the Northern Triangle through Mexico. The research methodology, quantitative in nature, was carried out in three areas of the country: Tapachula, Veracruz and Monterrey, in which the low level of impact of the Culture of Peace and the differences between the places where it was obtained could be identified, due to, among other factors, the presence of international organizations on the southern border.

Introduction: This work seeks to find literature that supports the idea of resilience as a tool for the prevention of violence, thus promoting peaceful coexistence. To this end, it analyses the work that supports this possible new dimension of violence in addition to the novel term «Resilient Peace» which unifies these two terms by presenting a new type of peace.Methodology: A search equation and the term «Resilient Peace» have been used in different databases, and by applying exclusion criteria, the sample has finally resulted in 15 texts.Results and conclusions: After the analysis of these texts, it seems to show this preventive dimension of resilience, which does not have much academic scope, therefore, could neutralize violence, preventing its appearance. It is also necessary to address the daily nature of this dimension, since this prevention in situations where there is a vital threat is not useful.

The Journal of Culture of Peace is an annual scientific publication, edited by the UNESCO Chair of Peace Education and Culture of the Private Technical University of Loja-Ecuador (Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja-Ecuador). Its main function is to promote international, regional, national and local research related to the Culture of peace, conflicts, education and human rights.

The general objective of this article is to problematize to problematize the place of first person’s documentaries the context of a migrant and diasporic cinema, as defined by Berghahn & Sternberg, for whom this contemporary filmography should be understood as the result of one of the most significant practices regarding the artistic expression of migrant and diasporic groups since the 1980s. For this, an analysis is made of the documentary Les 12 enfants du rabin, made in 2007 by Yäel Bitton, with special attention to the interviews that the filmmaker conducts with his family in different countries. The analysis of these interviews is based on the works of Leonor Arfuch on the relevance of this discursive practice in the contemporary biographical space. It also exchanges with the poetic analysis of the documentary interview as advocated by Leger Grindon, an author who proposes five categories from which it would be possible to investigate the relationship established in the films between the interviewers, interviewees and viewers. As a result of the analysis, the contribution of this filmography stands out as the possibility of self-representation of migrant and diasporic communities, as well as for the investigation of the intricate intercultural scenarios involved in subjective experiences in such contexts, especially with respect to the dynamics of otherness in domestic spaces.

In this article we seek to understand the suffering experienced by migrant people through the dialogue written in the chapter O Mal-estar da Migração [Migration and its Discontents], which is part of a Master’s thesis in Social Psychology of Universidade do Estado de Rio de Janeiro. In the chapter analyzed, the situation of social vulnerability and violation of human rights is considered through the aspects in Freud´s O Mal-estar na Civilização [Civilization and Its Discontents]. Our goal is to deepen this dialogue, using the psychoanalytic conceptual matrix to understand the suffering caused to the migrant when confronted with new cultures. From the Sociological perspective of Norbert Elias in A Sociedade dos Indivíduos [Society of Individuals] (1994), we aim to understand how the concepts of individual and society can help in understanding the search of the migrant for support outside his original community and how he shapes his identity from this experience. In a complex network of affectations, the migrant body, when carrying and communicating its bonds, has in its practices a redesign of spaces and attitudes that reflect the interaction of cultures that, in turn, shape and are shaped by individual expressions in a collective process. Individuals learn to articulate transitions and point out issues that circulate in them and through them, pressured by conditions that society imposes on them in the service of their cultural ideals, often outlining ethnic, racial, and other prejudices.

This article researches the therapeutic and cultural effects produced when practicing Batuque by the musical group Finka Pé. The group consists of women and descendants of Cape Verde living in the city of Lisbon, in the Alto da Cova da Moura neighborhood - a suburb of Lisbon where a large part of Cape Verde’s immigrants concentrate. Cape Verdean music has been constituted in a transnational way, beyond borders, and Batuque represents one of the oldest musical genres practiced essentially by women: the batucadeiras. Qualitative techniques of the cartography method, of participant observation, as well as interviews and the constitution of a Field Diary were utilized in the research. We conclude that the history of Batuque and batucadeiras is one of struggle and resistance. Through this migrant musical practice, they not only disseminate Cape Verdean culture, but consolidate spaces of care, resilience and freedom between them and the community to which they belong, resignifying a place of citizenship for Cape Verdean immigrants in Portugal.

This article aims to carry out a self-ethnography of the Covid-19 pandemic and the vulnerability in which all humanity is immersed. Total globalized humanity has suffered a pandemic that destroys society. Autoethnography constitutes an effort to analyze the quantitative and qualitative information that we receive daily through the media. This is built as a method that feeds on the knowledge of geography, anthropology and research for peace, making us protagonists of this vulnerable society. Cultural and dialectical materialism gives a better explanation to this phenomenon, since the superstructure contains practices, folds and textures that are also cultural practices (reasons, causes and processes) in times of pandemics. The result is the construction of a vulnerable society in which fear reigns and where the phenomenon of racism and xenophobia arises in light of the coronavirus. All these synergies generate violence that is imperceptible as hijackers of freedom and social justice, but rather as the protector of the authoritarian State itself. Today humanity is in a context of unprecedented vulnerability, therefore, times demand the right to non-discrimination in a reality of neutral peace, intercultural peace and vulnerable peace.

The objective of the article is to know the proposals of the Educational Reform 2013 based on articles 3º. and 73 constitutional laws that led to the creation of the Law of Professional Teaching Service and left the National Institute for Educational Evaluation as an autonomous body that was in charge of conducting the teacher evaluation. While the 2019 Educational Reform repeals these articles and adds article 31 of the Constitution creating the National System for the Improvement of Education that will carry out only diagnostic evaluations. A documentary research was carried out and the Official Journals of the Federation were used as a basis to carry out the analysis of the educational reforms of 2013 and 2019. As a significant result are the 802 teachers who had been dismissed for refusing to be evaluated and now they returned to the classrooms in the 2019-2020 school year at the national level, representing a setback to the improvement of educational quality in Mexico.

The family as a social entity, its roots and history, gives us a map of how they exist and relate to the education of their sons and daughters through the social structure of the school. We look at the history of the pre and postindustrial family in Puerto Rico to learn about its evolution and the influences and values present in current education. Both the social and cultural capital of the parents, continue to be decisive for the future success of the education of their sons and daughters, which requires that we reconfigure the vital space of the school as one that transcends the home and the school. We provide a theoretical review of the Family and School relationship to consider a new association based on co-responsibility. In light of the pandemic, the priorities call for educators and public policy managers to approach this relationship with a view to mitigating what was lost, in terms of time and learning of students, while charting a new path towards integrating the family in a new Family-School binomial.