Peace studies, multiculturalism and democracy

Abstract

The text describes a shallow outlook about the complexity of the conflicts and the violence that are shown on the world, on Latin America and in particular, on Mexico. From the establishment of the designs for peace, describes the structural systematic violence, direct violence, cultural and symbolic violence, in being in our societies. It enunciates the kinds of peace in existence in the present, intended to then entwine interculturality and democracy in their investigative and educative dimension in the post grade studies, whose objective is to form investigators on the theoretical, analytic and methodological knowledge about our peaceable and violent realities. It is proposed for Latin America to develop the theoretic perspective of the Integral, active, nonviolentand lasting Peace, that is a sustainable peace, from a re-focus on the basis, on one side of our realities, and on the other, hypothetical relating to theories of critical latinamerican thinking in any of its expressions.

Keywords

• Integral peace
• Interculturality
• Democracy
• Nonviolence