Peace building in Mexico: pedagogy of the families of the disappeared people

Abstract

In a country traversed by war conditions of "massive" and "selective extermination", in the last decade, it seems essential to reflect on the strategies and tactics of the different social subjects that struggle the most for the construction of peace with justice and dignity, and not only associated with the idea of ??security. The construction of peace is deeply linked to the forms of nonviolent civil and social resistance actions, which in Mexico we call “peaceful”. Among these social subjects, the indigenous and peasant peoples, and the citizens of neighbourhoods that currently stand out in their territorial resistance and models of community security, the relatives who search for the disappeared people throughout the country, the feminist and non-feminist groups that fight against gender violence and high school students.

Particularly, we will first enter into a theoretical and practical analysis on the construction of the identities of women who seek truth, justice, reparation, non-repetition and active memory for their disappeared and murdered people. And, in a second moment, we will analyze their forms of social struggle that represent for our country, Latin America and the world a key pedagogy about how to build peace from nonviolent forms and of increasing moral determination, directed towards actions of non-cooperation and disobedience. civil.