Peace Chair: a young testimony from caricature to a post-conflict culture

Abstract

This article aims to develop a reflection around the role of caricature as an instrument of political reflection for young people in post-conflict times, particularly supporting the peace chair potential and its implementation on school processes.

It is clear that, for many, young people have for fact taken advantage of various distinctions and languages in order to make their vision, verse and trace palpable from what their senses offer; nevertheless, their expressions, either do not cause an echo in what happens, or in the worst case, are censored because within them there is an honest and pertinent criticality that challenges or exhorts the movement in which power is established and raised.

Caricature, in different ways, had gone through censorships and sabotage scenarios despite the potential as a narrative and artistic category to let the expressions of these young people be made palpable and credible, expressions that emanate from restless and active spirits resolving the fate of any generation, this and other circumstances of margination and apathy had led young people to established in complex access, inhospitable or clandestine schemes.

Therefore, to reflect on the scenarios of school participation it is necessary to reformulate, precisely, the voice of those who form their political character in class. In this sense, this article will present, in a first moment, a reflection on the place of the Peace Chair, to link, in a second moment, the peace scholars who underlie this same scenario and, finally, to contribute some understandings on how caricature can be an instrument of formation of young people as political subjects.