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Sinaloa, Mexico: State Congress Holds Youth Meeting “Culture of Peace for Sustainable Development: 2030 Agenda in Action”

. TOLERANCE & SOLIDARITY .

November 12, 2025 – The Sinaloa State Congress held an event entitled “Culture of Peace for Sustainable Development: 2030 Agenda in Action,” which consisted of workshops on various topics impacting society, with the participation of young people from different parts of the state.

The event was inaugurated by Representative Tere Guerra, president of the Political Coordination Board of the State Congress, who announced that this activity, organized by the Legislative Branch’s Culture and Arts Commission, seeks to build a path toward sustainable development and peace through culture.

Guerra Ochoa emphasized that culture is not merely an embellishment to development but rather its foundation and essential driving force for achieving its goals, as it fosters identity, facilitates dialogue amidst diversity, and offers tools for resolving conflicts peacefully and with humanism.

The legislator acknowledged that Sinaloa is experiencing complex times and enormous challenges such as climate change, inequality, the economic and social crisis, and violence; however, she also noted the opportunity to rebuild the social fabric through art, education, culture, and collaboration. In this regard, the congresswoman emphasized that this meeting represents a unique opportunity for the youth of Sinaloa to design an action plan that links the Sustainable Development Goals with the local reality, not to meet international targets, but to build a model of coexistence that reflects Sinaloan identity.

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Question for this article:

Youth initiatives for a culture of peace, How can we ensure they get the attention and funding they deserve?

Is there progress towards a culture of peace in Mexico?

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For her part, Congresswoman Sthefany Rea Reátiga, president of the Culture and Arts Committee of the State Congress, reiterated that the 2030 Agenda presents great challenges, including eradicating poverty, guaranteeing equality, and protecting the environment, but beyond the goals and indicators, it offers an ethical vision of the world we want to build.

That is why the legislator invited the young people participating in this meeting to transform these working groups into a laboratory of hope where every voice and every proposal contributes to ensuring that culture inspires transformation and peace guides the sustainable development of Sinaloa.

During the event, Francisco Fajardo Durán, an ambassador for the 2030 Agenda with Acción Universitaria, also participated. He acknowledged the work being done by the State Congress in opening these kinds of spaces, where culture is considered a tool for development and peace.

Fajardo Durán mentioned that in recent years, culture has ceased to be merely an embellishment of development and has become its very heart. He further explained that the topics analyzed in each working group were: social development and well-being, environment and sustainability, economy and labor, cities, communities and governance, as well as cooperation and alliances. These topics were discussed from the perspective of the current situation in Sinaloa, in order to then propose possible solutions.

The meeting included the participation of young mediators who coordinated the working groups and also assisted in the design of the state action plan. They shared the belief that only by uniting voices and efforts can Sinaloa become a benchmark for sustainable development and a true culture of peace.

It is worth mentioning that, in addition to young people, members of parliament and staff from the Legislative Branch were present at the event’s opening.

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December 14, 2025Latin America, TOLERANCE & SOLIDARITYLatin AmericaCPNN Coordinator

Report from COP30

. . SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT . .

Article on the facebook page of Herbert Santo de Lima (member of the Culture of Peace Corporation that owns CPNN)

There goes the text:

COP30 is over. And even though I wasn’t in Belem last week, I followed everything from here between the meetings in the Chamber, the conversations about our Master Plan and the routine of the mandate.

Because, at the end of the day, what the world decides outside knocks directly on the doorstep of cities, including São Lourenço.

The feeling is two things: disappointment and, at the same time, a thread of hope.

The sad side first: once again the world has failed to make a clear deal to put a programmed end to fossil fuels. It was the move everyone was expecting, and he didn’t come. Pressure from producing countries blocked the text until the last minute. And that matters to us, yes — because if the global transition slows, cities need to speed ahead in planning, mobility, energy and smart land use.

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Sustainable Development Summits of States, What are the results?

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But there was also a moment that rekindled some light: Colombia refused to accept an empty lockdown. They insisted, pressured and forced the negotiation not to bury the issue. And the president of COP30, Andre Corrêa do Lago, has assumed there, publicly, that he will pull this agenda forward. Didn’t fix it but stayed alive. And in the global climate process, keeping alive is already a lot.

On the plus side, there’s been significant breakthrough in funding for adaptation and how to measure cities’ progress in protecting against extreme events. This helps us right here. Each indicator of these becomes an argument for us to defend stronger policies in the municipality.

And this is where our city, São Lourenço, comes in.

We’re writing the city’s future with the Master Plan. And the global message is simple: those who don’t prepare now will pay dearly later.
So, yeah, all that happened at COP30, I’m taking with me to the next vote and debates:

– protect the green areas we still have,
– think mobility the smart way,
– prepare São Lourenço, for drought and floods,
– take care of water seriously.
– organise soil use with a focus on the climate that has already changed.

COP30 didn’t deliver everything needed. But it delivered enough for us not to give up. The fighting continues — and it’s starting in the cities.
I keep firmly following, studying and bringing to São Lourenço what makes sense to our reality.

The future can’t wait. And neither are we.

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November 24, 2025Latin America, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTLatin AmericaCPNN Coordinator

50,000 March in Brazil to Celebrate Death of Fossil Fuel Industry at COP30

. . SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT . .

An article by Jon Queally from Common Dreams (reprinted according to Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

An estimated 50,000 people took to the streets of Belém do Pará, Brazil on Saturday to demonstrate outside the halls of the United Nations annual climate summit, holding a “Great People’s March” and makeshift “Funeral for Fossil Fuels” as they demanded a just transition toward a more renewable energy system and egalitarian economy.

Organized by civil society organizations and Indigenous Peoples groups from Brazil and beyond, the tens of thousands who marched outside the thirtieth Conference of the Parties (COP30) summit called for an end to the rapacious greed of the oil, gas, and coal companies as they advocated for big polluters to pay for the large-scale damage their businesses have caused worldwide over the last century.

“We are tens of thousands here today, on the streets of Belém, to show negotiators at COP30 that this is what people power looks like,” said Carolina Pasquali, executive director of Greenpeace Brazil, said as the march took hold. “Yesterday we found out that one in every 25 COP30 participants is a fossil fuel lobbyist, proportionally a 12% increase from last year’s COP. How can the climate crisis be solved while those creating it are influencing the talks and delaying decisions? The people are getting fed up–enough talking, we need action and we need it now.”

The report by the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition last week showed that at least 1,600 lobbyists from the fossil fuel industry are present at the conference, making it the second-largest delegation overall, second only to Brazil’s, the host nation.

“It’s common sense that you cannot solve a problem by giving power to those who caused it,” said Jax Bongon from the Philippines-based IBON International, a member of the coalition, in a Friday statement. “Yet three decades and 30 COPs later, more than 1,500 fossil fuel lobbyists are roaming the climate talks as if they belong here. It is infuriating to watch their influence deepen year after year, making a mockery of the process and of the communities suffering its consequences.”

While the overwhelming presence of fossil fuel lobbyists has once again diminished hopes that anything worthwhile will emerge from the conference, the tens of thousands in the streets on Saturday represented the ongoing determination of the global climate movement.

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Sustainable Development Summits of States, What are the results?

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João Talocchi, co-founder of Alianza Potência Energética Latin America, one of the key groups behind the “Funeral for Fossil Fuels” portion of the day’s action—which included mock caskets for the oil, gas, and coal companies alongside parades of jungle animals, wind turbines, and solar panels representing what’s at stake and the better path forward—noted the key leadership of Indigenous groups from across the Global South.

“From the Global South to the world, we are showing what a fair and courageous energy transition must look like,” said Talochhi.

Ilan Zugman, director of 350.org in Latin America and the Caribbean, noted the significance of the demonstration, including the symbolism of the funeral procession.

“We march symbolically burying fossil fuels because they are the root of the crisis threatening our lives,” explained Zugman. “Humanity already knows the way forward: clean energy, climate justice, and respect for the peoples who protect life. What is missing is political courage to break once and for all with oil, gas, and coal. It is time to put these old fuels where they belong—in the ground of history.”

With the COP30 at its midway point, climate activists warn that not nearly enough progress is being made, with the outsized influence of the fossil fuel industry one of the key reasons that governments, year after year and decade after decade, continue to drag their feet when it comes to taking the kind of aggressive actions to stem the climate crisis that scientists and experts say is necessary.

“We are taking to the streets because, while governments are not acting fast enough to make polluters pay for their climate damages at COP30, extreme weather events continue to wreak havoc across the globe,” said Abdoulaye Diallo, co-head of Greenpeace International’s “Make Polluters Pay” campaign. “That is why we are here, carrying the climate polluters bill, showing the projected economic damages of more than $5 trillion from the emissions of just five oil and gas companies over the last decade.”

“Fossil fuel companies are destroying our planet, and people are paying the price,” said Diallo. “Negotiators must wake up to the growing public and political pressure to make polluters pay, and agree to new polluter taxes in the final COP30 outcome.”

(Editor’s note: Another demonstration specifically criticized Brazil’s decision to allow oil prospecting in the Amazon. According to UN News, “Around 90 Indigenous people from the Munduruku Indigenous group staged a peaceful protest early Friday, blocking the main entrance to the Blue Zone – the restricted area set aside for negotiators – at COP30 in Belém. . . COP30 Executive Director Ana Toni described the demonstrations as “legitimate” and confirmed that the government is listening. Protesters were directed to meet with the Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sônia Guajajara, and the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Marina Silva.)

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November 16, 2025Latin America, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTLatin AmericaCPNN Coordinator

Mexico: Equality and Inclusion Secretariat and Viral Network Launch Call for Participation in the “Hip Hop for Peace” Project

EDUCATION FOR PEACE .

An article from the Government of the State of Nuevo León

To promote support for urban culture, community participation, and violence prevention, the Secretariat of Equality and Inclusion, the Secretariat of Public Security, the Viral Network organization, and the Bendito Estilo collective have invited young people and urban artists from across the country to participate in the national project “Hip Hop for Peace.”

At a press conference held at the Independencia Community Center, Martha Herrera, Secretary of Equality and Inclusion, Pablo Almuli Cassigoli, Project Coordinator for Red Viral, and Jesús Héctor Grijalva, State Advisor on Penitentiary Policy, presented the project that seeks to empower young people and make them protagonists of social change.

The head of the Secretariat of Equality and Inclusion emphasized that the event aims to cultivate peace through artistic expression.

“This is the first time since the Government of Nuevo León has embraced urban culture, that we have managed to use Hip Hop as a public policy tool, as a reintegration strategy, and as an engine for building peace,” explained Martha Herrera.

She added that the voice of young people through music transforms communities from exclusion to integration. The call for applications is primarily aimed at young people throughout Mexico in contexts of exclusion or risk, young people in prisons and community centers in Nuevo León, neighborhood collectives, established artists, teachers, cultural promoters, and anyone who believes in the power of art as a response to violence.

The program seeks to combat the stigma surrounding Hip Hop and channel emotions that rarely find other legitimate spaces for expression, through the creation of original songs with a message of peace.

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What place does music have in the peace movement?

Is there progress towards a culture of peace in Mexico?

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The goal is to assemble a diverse team in each state that combines different disciplines of hip hop: rap, music production, audiovisual production, and graffiti.

During the press conference, the local artists of the Hip Hop for Peace collective were presented: El Jaiper, Chilo Carranza, Nexxo Emme, Tinta Prieta Damisela, Marily Mach, Giga Timba, and Danriv. Representing Community Centers will be the group “BETA HOUSE,” comprised of Ricardo Gerardo Argaiz Garcia “RK,” Roberto Carlos Cruz Martínez “Tyago Cruz,” and Luis Alfredo Moreno Maldonado “Ploki Moreno,” as well as solo artists Marvin Alexis García Cida “Zoket,” José Luis Martínez Bermea “Relyan Bermea,” Raúl Darío Villanueva González “Radio 24 Siete,” and Iván Yahir Castillo Ibarra “Enece.”

The Hip-Hop for Peace project is a joint effort led by Red VIRAL and the Bendito Estilo collective, in partnership with the United Nations (UN), the National Commission for Mental Health and Addictions (CONASAMA), Youth Integration Centers (CIJ), the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection through the Decentralized Administrative Body for Prevention and Social Rehabilitation, and the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property.

Additionally, at the local level, state human rights commissions, security secretariats through state prison systems, cultural secretariats, youth institutes, as well as civil associations and representatives of the private sector have joined the initiative.

Young people, urban artists, collectives, and anyone interested in the call for submissions can send their original song, which should include a message of peace and be up to 5 minutes long.

Participants must send their name, state, age, discipline, and a sample of their work before October 20th to hiphopporlapaz@gmail.com.

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October 30, 2025EDUCATION FOR PEACE, Latin AmericaLatin AmericaCPNN Coordinator

When Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, “Peace” Has Lost Its Meaning

DISARMAMENT & SECURITY .

An article by Michelle Ellner from Codepink

When I saw the headline Maria Corina Machado wins the Peace Prize, I almost laughed at the absurdity. But I didn’t, because there’s nothing funny about rewarding someone whose politics have brought so much suffering. Anyone who knows what she stands for knows there’s nothing remotely peaceful about her politics.

If this is what counts as “peace” in 2025, then the prize itself has lost every ounce of credibility. I’m Venezuelan-American, and I know exactly what Machado represents.

She’s the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention dressed up as democracy.

Machado’s politics are steeped in violence. She has called for foreign intervention, even appealing directly to Benjamin Netanyahu, the architect of Gaza’s annihilation, to help “liberate” Venezuela with bombs under the banner of “freedom,” She has demanded sanctions, that silent form of warfare whose effects – as studies in The Lancet and other journals have shown – have killed more people than war, cutting off medicine, food, and energy to entire populations.

Machado has spent her entire political life promoting division, eroding Venezuela’s sovereignty and denying its people the right to live with dignity.

This is who Maria Corina Machado really is:

° She helped lead the 2002 coup that briefly overthrew a democratically elected president, and signed the Carmona Decree that erased the Constitution and dissolved every public institution overnight.

° She worked hand in hand with Washington to justify regime change, using her platform to demand foreign military intervention to “liberate” Venezuela through force.

° She cheered on Donald Trump’s threats of invasion and his naval deployments in the Caribbean, a show of force that risks igniting regional war under the pretext of “combating narcotrafficking.” While Trump sent warships and froze assets, Machado stood ready to serve as his local proxy, promising to deliver Venezuela’s sovereignty on a silver platter.

° She pushed for the U.S. sanctions that strangled the economy, knowing exactly who would pay the price: the poor, the sick, the working class.

° She helped construct the so-called “interim government” a Washington backed puppet show run by a self-appointed “president” who looted Venezuela’s resources abroad while children at home went hungry.

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° She vows to reopen Venezuela’s embassy in Jerusalem, aligning herself openly with the same apartheid state that bombs hospitals and calls it self-defense.

° Now she wants to hand over the country’s oil, water, and infrastructure to private corporations. This is the same recipe that made Latin America the laboratory of neoliberal misery in the 1990s.

Machado was also one of the political architects of La Salida, the 2014 opposition campaign that called for escalated protests, including guarimba tactics. Those weren’t “peaceful protests” as the foreign press claimed; they were organized barricades meant to paralyze the country and force the government’s fall. Streets were blocked with burning trash and barbed wire, buses carrying workers were torched, and people suspected of being Chavista were beaten or killed. Even ambulances and doctors were attacked. Some Cuban medical brigades were nearly burned alive. Public buildings, food trucks, and schools were destroyed. Entire neighborhoods were held hostage by fear while opposition leaders like Machado cheered from the sidelines and called it “resistance.”

She praises Trump’s “decisive action” against what she calls a “criminal enterprise,” aligning herself with the same man who cages migrant children and tears families apart under ICE’s watch, while Venezuelan mothers search for their children disappeared by U.S. migration policies.

Machado isn’t a symbol of peace or progress. She is part of a global alliance between fascism, Zionism, and neoliberalism, an axis that justifies domination in the language of democracy and peace. In Venezuela, that alliance has meant coups, sanctions, and privatization. In Gaza, it means genocide and the erasure of a people. The ideology is the same: a belief that some lives are disposable, that sovereignty is negotiable, and that violence can be sold as order.

If Henry Kissinger could win a Peace Prize, why not María Corina Machado? Maybe next year they’ll give one to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for “compassion under occupation.”

Every time this award is handed to an architect of violence disguised as diplomacy, it spits in the face of those who actually fight for peace: the Palestinian medics digging bodies from rubble, the journalists risking their lives in Gaza to document the truth and the humanitarian workers of the Flotilla sailing to break the siege and deliver aid to starving children in Gaza, with nothing but courage and conviction.

But real peace is not negotiated in boardrooms or awarded on stages. Real peace is built by women organizing food networks during blockades, by Indigenous communities defending rivers from extraction, by workers who refuse to be starved into obedience, by Venezuelan mothers mobilizing to demand the return of children seized under U.S. ICE and migration policies and by nations that choose sovereignty over servitude. That’s the peace Venezuela, Cuba, Palestine, and every nation of the Global South deserves.

Tell the Nobel Committee: The Peace Prize belongs to Gaza’s journalists, not María Corina Machado!

And Join our Venezuela Rapid Response Team!

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October 14, 2025DISARMAMENT & SECURITY, global, Latin Americaglobal, Latin AmericaCPNN Coordinator

“Right to Dream” project by Myrian Castello, from Brazil

…. HUMAN RIGHTS ….

Post from email of Glêner Piantino on 25 September.

If it is the role of a city councilor to create municipal laws, what is the role of a co-councilor? According to co-councilor Myrian Castello – from the Coletiva Semear São Lourenço – PV, it is to go further and create something greater in the sense of a federal law. On September 24, the co-founder of the NGO Fábrica dos Sonhos had her constitutional amendment bill approved by the Special Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, in Brasília, DF.

Entitled “Right to Dream”, the project proposes to include this right as a constitutional amendment, grounded on the legal foundations of the articles of the Federal Constitution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, all of which defend the right to full freedom of thought.

Widely accepted and approved in its legitimate proposal, the project argues for bringing the dream to the center of the legal, political, and social debate as a public policy, in the face of a context of social inequality, intolerance, discrimination, prejudice, and violations of human rights within the political and economic scenarios we live in.

More than an abstract concept, Myrian Castello’s initiative was thorough and incisive in justifying the right of underprivileged classes to achieve the dream of a better future, with new opportunities and real improvements in life.

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In her speech, Myrian emphasized:
“Our project is a concrete proposal for social transformation. No one should take away from us the power to dream. We have presented an unprecedented bill to make the right to dream a fundamental human right in Brazil. Every human being,” she continued, “regardless of race, gender, age, or place, has the right to dream, imagine, and create realities based on ethics and love. When we defend the right to dream, we are defending what is most precious in human freedom: the possibility to imagine futures, to escape oppression, and to propose new ways of living,” she concluded.

Fábrica dos Sonhos is a Civil Society Organization (CSO), multidisciplinary, non-profit, and active in several social fronts. Its projects include education and citizenship, entrepreneurship and income generation, empowerment of youth and women, environment, sustainability, and community culture. Currently, the NGO carries out extensive activities in the municipality of São Lourenço, under the coordination of Alessandra Mattos Ferreira, the current executive secretary of the organization.

Myrian Castello is also a co-parliamentarian of the Coletiva Semear-PV candidacy of São Lourenço, represented by councilor Herbert Santo de Lima and also integrated by co-councilors Demian Mendes Lage and Theo Bajgielman Ayres.

“The project is the first known record in Minas Gerais — and the first in São Lourenço — of a proposal born within a local NGO being accepted by the Chamber of Deputies to proceed as a Proposed Constitutional Amendment (PEC).”
(Based on Art. 60 of the Federal Constitution and official records of the Chamber for SUG 3/2022 – Fábrica dos Sonhos.)
#RightToDream #DreamsThatTransform #collectivetrajectory

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September 29, 2025HUMAN RIGHTS, Latin AmericaLatin AmericaCPNN Coordinator

Cuba: International Day of Peace commemorated in schools in Ciego de Ávila

FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION .

An article from TV Avila (translated from Spanish by the Google translator)

In a joyful and reflective atmosphere at the Raúl Corales Fornos School in Ciego de Ávila, World Peace Day was commemorated, a day dedicated to promoting nonviolence, mutual understanding, and building a more just and peaceful world.

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The event began with a moving musical performance, a reading of a poem about peace by students from different grades, who presented plays, dances, and songs, addressing topics such as the importance of peace, peaceful conflict resolution, respect for diversity, and solidarity among peoples.

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What is happening for the International Day of Peace?

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In their speeches, they emphasized the need to build a world where the values of tolerance, equality, and dialogue prevail. They emphasized the fundamental role of education in promoting peace, highlighting the importance of teaching children and young people to resolve conflicts peacefully and to respect cultural and religious differences.

The students, with messages full of hope and optimism, shared their reflections on peace and the need to build a better future for all. Here, they reaffirmed that, “Peace begins in our hearts,” “Education is the key to a peaceful world,” and “Together we can build a future without violence.”

The event concluded with a message of hope and commitment. Students and teachers from the Raúl Corales Fornos Pedagogical School in Ciego de Ávila reaffirmed their commitment to promoting peace and peaceful coexistence, and called on all members of the community to work together to build a more just and peaceful world for all.

The celebration of World Peace Day in this central province was a reminder of the importance of peace and the responsibility we all have in building it. An event filled with emotions that inspired everyone to work toward a more tolerant, respectful, and supportive world.

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September 23, 2025FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION, Latin AmericaLatin AmericaCPNN Coordinator

Bolivia: National Network for a Culture of Peace Meets in Sacaba

. . DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION . .

An article from Los Tiempos

Under the slogan “I choose to dialogue, I choose to listen,” more than 150 communicators and young people from 40 municipalities will meet this Saturday (3:30 p.m.) in the town of Sacaba. The goal is to strengthen their values, skills, and knowledge about the Culture of Peace and its connection to the exercise of human rights and development, aware that conflict fragments the cohesion of a society and impedes development.

In addition, they will make public their declaration for peace, recognizing their responsibility in conflict prevention and transformation through art and communication.

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How can we develop the institutional framework for a culture of peace?

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Sacaba’s main square will be the stage for the cultural movement, supported by Solidar Suiza and the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) (Peacebuilding Fund).

On Saturday, participants will spread awareness-raising messages and reflect on the culture of peace through communication and art. During the public intervention, they will present plays, rap, performances, and a mural, concluding with their Declaration of Commitment to Peace.

The communicators and young members of the National Network for a Culture of Peace will use their knowledge of communication and art to continue contributing to the culture of peace. They will amplify and disseminate their messages and proposals, generate mobilization in their contexts, and also contribute to the fight against disinformation and hate speech.

This action is part of the Initiative to Consolidate a Culture of Peace in Bolivia, promoted by UNDP with financial support from the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) and implemented by Solidar Suiza in partnership with LanzArte and RedCom.

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September 2, 2025DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION, Latin AmericaLatin AmericaCPNN Coordinator

Mexico: Cuernavaca City Council Holds the First University Conference on a Culture of Peace in the State of Morelos

.. DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION ..

An article from the city of Cuernavaca

The Cuernavaca City Council, through the Directorate of Migration and Religious Affairs, held the first University Conference on a Culture of Peace in the State of Morelos, with the purpose of raising awareness among the academic community about the importance of fostering values that strengthen social peace.

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Questions for this article:

How can culture of peace be developed at the municipal level?

Is there progress towards a culture of peace in Mexico?

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The event took place in the César Carrizales Auditorium of the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM), with the participation of 50 attendees, including students, faculty, and researchers. It was supported by the Interdisciplinary Research Center for University Development (CIIDU) and the Human Rights Commission of the State of Morelos.

During the activities, two roundtable discussions were held with specialists, who discussed various psychological, economic, and social factors that influence the construction of a culture of peace, also providing a space for public participation.

As part of a comprehensive strategy promoted by the Cuernavaca City Council, led by Mayor José Luis Urióstegui Salgado, these workshops will continue to be held in the municipality’s educational and community centers, with the goal of fostering an active citizenry in building a comprehensive peace that encompasses all areas, including the social and educational.

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August 31, 2025DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION, Latin AmericaLatin AmericaCPNN Coordinator

Mexico: UATx Seeks to Consolidate a Culture of Peace Within Its Community

… EDUCATION FOR PEACE …

An article from ABC Noticias de Tlaxcala

In Mexico, mediation and restorative justice must become a reality through academic programs in higher education institutions, stated Dr. Patricia Lucila González Rodríguez during the conference Mediation and Restorative Justice from the perspective of gender at the Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala (UATx). The conference is being held at the initiative of the Secretariat of Scientific and Graduate Research and the research centers of this institution.

The UATx seeks to promote reflection, training, and research activities that contribute to reducing structural violence and consolidating an authentic culture of peace for the benefit of society.
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Is there progress towards a culture of peace in Mexico?

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In her presentation, the specialist explained that cultural change involves the gradual development of new working methods aimed at integrating the culture of peace, including alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.

In welcoming the speaker and the audience gathered in the “Exchange and Mobility Auditorium,” Dr. Margarita Martínez Gómez, Secretary of Scientific Research and Graduate Studies, stated that universities are key spaces that contribute to processes of social transformation by raising awareness and sensitizing the importance of a culture of peace.

In this regard, she emphasized that the Autonomous University of Tlaxcala involves all stakeholders to build a society free of violence, where all members of this community develop skills and tools that allow for the creation of democratic, supportive, and empathetic environments.

The conference was moderated by Dr. Omar Vázquez Sánchez, Coordinator of the Center for Legal-Political Research (CIJUREP). Dr. González Rodríguez is a researcher at the Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, coordinator of the research line “The Accusatory Criminal System in Mexico,” and an expert on crime, violence, human rights, gender, and the accusatory criminal process.

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August 21, 2025EDUCATION FOR PEACE, Latin AmericaLatin AmericaCPNN Coordinator