Education and culture of peace

Understanding to transform

Abstract

Speaking today of education and a culture of peace is neither a rhetorical gesture nor a naïve appeal to abstract values. Rather, it is an ethical, political, and epistemological stance in the face of a world marked by multiple forms of violence—armed and symbolic, visible and normalized—that directly challenge our educational institutions, the production of knowledge, and the public responsibilities of those of us who inhabit the academic field. This Cuadernos del CLAEH dossier arises from that conviction: that peace cannot be understood as a passive state, nor as the mere absence of conflict, but rather as an active, fragile, and always unfinished process of social, cultural, and educational construction.