IDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Peace Education, Peacebuilding, Structural Violence
13 Nov 2018
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Rethinking pedagogies in divided societies latin america, and around the world. Rather than find solutions to [violence] problems, the state gains huge political capital from its ongoing confrontations at the same time as it allies with pathological and corrupt violent actors outside the state in order to gain temporary victories. Such securitization, in the form of punitive discipline regimes (repressive attempts at peacekeeping control), also is increasingly prevalent inside some school systems, in particular mexico"s. The work of brazilian socialist education scholar paulo freire has profoundly influenced peace and conflict educators" pedagogies and efforts to address structural violence. Campaigns to empower poor people, inspired by freire, have been mounted in cuba and nicaragua in latin america, and guinea-bissau in africa. These initiatives have engaged learners in conscientization dialogue, expressing the realities of their own oppression so that they could rise up and transform their situations.
