Thinking about peace and acting peace: praxeological and epistemological turn

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Clara Stella Juliao Vargas

Abstract

This work emphasizes concepts related to peace (including socialization, conflict, good peace´s practices, empowerment peaceful, civil resistance, imperfect peace and nonviolence), it relates among them and it shows the importance of both epistemological and praxeological turn in their approach.


The author gives examples about the peace communities in the framework of the humanitarian zones in Colombia. She shows them like situations of self- determination of the populations which should be seen as a pacific power due to they have chosen a peaceful alternative to live despite of being in the middle of conflict between other agents. 

Author Biography

Clara Stella Juliao Vargas, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios

Trabajadora social, economista, especialista en gerencia social, magister en economía, estudiante de doctorado en Paz, Conflictos y Democracia, directora del Programa de Trabajo Social de Uniminuto.