{"id":39351,"date":"2026-04-12T08:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=39351"},"modified":"2026-04-12T10:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:09:51","slug":"national-autonomous-university-of-mexico-encounters-and-networks-for-peace-why-talk-about-a-culture-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=39351","title":{"rendered":"National Autonomous University of Mexico: Encounters and Networks for Peace. Why Talk About a Culture of Peace?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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… EDUCATION FOR PEACE …<\/p>\n

An article from Gaceta UNAM<\/a><\/p>\n

On March 25, the National School of Social Work (ENTS) at UNAM hosted the inauguration of the comprehensive project between Civil Society, Academia, and Government: Encounters and Networks for Peace. Why Talk About a Culture of Peace?<\/p>\n

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\nPhoto: PUCPAZ<\/center><\/p>\n

The event was organized by the University Program on Culture of Peace and Eradication of Violence (PUCPAZ), in coordination with ENTS; the University Program on Human Rights (PUDH); the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus; the Rosario Castellanos National University (UNRC); and the Undersecretariat for Peacebuilding, Social Participation, and Religious Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior. Services and Consulting for Peace AC (Serapaz) and the Don Bosco Foundation.<\/p>\n

This university initiative seeks to build a shared, analytical, forward-looking, and critical action agenda, aimed at fostering dialogue, identifying best practices, and contributing proposals that inclusively promote progress toward an active society that weaves together knowledge and participates in building a culture of peace.<\/p>\n

An Act of Resistance<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the opening ceremony, Leticia Cano, director of PUCPAZ, noted that this gathering is an act of living, everyday resistance, accompanied by dialogues and conversations about experiences, best practices, interventions, and significant contributions, stemming from the challenges faced daily.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe neither start nor arrive from a vacuum; we reconnect with others in their own territories where the struggle for peace takes place every day, from within the communities, not to talk about them, but with them and from within them, because they are the ones who experience firsthand the contradictions of our time.\u201d Carmen Casas Ratia, director of the ENTS (National School of Social Work), emphasized that it was no coincidence that the meetings began at this academic institution, given the close relationship between social work and a culture of peace.<\/p>\n

She also underscored the importance of promoting a positive peace, based on justice, equity, and the satisfaction of needs, as well as addressing the structural causes of violence.<\/p>\n

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(Click here for the Spanish original of this article<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Question for this article:<\/div>\n
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Where is peace education taking place?<\/a><\/p>\n

Is there progress towards a culture of peace in Mexico?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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For his part, Alfredo S\u00e1nchez Casta\u00f1eda, coordinator of the PUDH (Program for the Development of Human Rights), warned that violence has surpassed the limits of imagination and disproportionately affects the most vulnerable sectors. \u201cIt is linked to multiple crises: economic, social, health, migration, and security, which poses the challenge of rethinking the role of educational institutions in peacebuilding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlos C. Contreras Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, from the Social Psychology for Peace Project at the UAM (Autonomous Metropolitan University), Iztapalapa Campus, emphasized the need to maintain a constant dialogue between academia, government, and civil society. The latter, in particular, has direct contact with communities and their problems, and maintained that peace must be understood as a collective process.<\/p>\n

In turn, Diana Lepe S\u00e1nchez, director of Serapaz, shared a community experience that sparked reflection on the type of peace that is being sought. Peace, she said, does not imply silence, but rather the possibility of expressing and addressing the problems of individuals and communities.<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Antonio Sandoval, general director of the Don Bosco Foundation, agreed on the importance of strengthening ties with civil society organizations, whose experiences on the ground allow for a rethinking of peacebuilding strategies. He also highlighted the role of academia in deepening the analysis of community work.<\/p>\n

Laura Ang\u00e9lica Cordero, general director of Social Prevention and the Reconstruction of the Social Fabric, representing Roc\u00edo B\u00e1rcena Molina, Undersecretary of Peacebuilding, Social Participation, and Religious Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior, celebrated the inter-institutional collaboration and noted that peacebuilding is not a recent trend, but a sustained effort. In that regard, she quoted Eleanor Roosevelt: \u201cIt is not enough to talk about peace; one must believe in it and work to achieve it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ana Mar\u00eda Rosas, general counsel of the UNRC, representing its rector, Alma Herrera M\u00e1rquez, noted that education plays an essential role in peacebuilding, as it is a means to transform both those who receive it and those who provide it.<\/p>\n

Human Rights and Violence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda Dolores Gonz\u00e1lez Saravia Calder\u00f3n, president of the Mexico City Human Rights Commission, gave the opening address, in which she spoke about the challenges to peacebuilding and the guarantee of human rights. She distinguished between positive peace, which is lasting and based on justice, and negative peace, which is imposed and focused on security.<\/p>\n

She also defined violence as the use of force to dominate or impose, and emphasized the need to build solutions.<\/p>\n

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