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THE ROLE OF EDUCATION FOR PEACE IN COLOMBIA
Peace is a word that is uttered almost as frequently as truth, beauty, and
love. It may be just as elusive to define as these other virtues. Common
synonyms for peace include amity, friendship, harmony, concord,
tranquility, repose, quiescence, truce, pacification, and neutrality.
Likewise, the peacemaker is the pacifier, mediator, intermediary, and
intercessor. While some of these descriptions are appropriate, they are
still quite limited in describing both the nature of peace and the role of
the peacemaker. Any attempt to articulate the nature of peace and
peacemaking, therefore, must address those conditions which are
favorable to their emergence. Freedom, human rights, and justice are
among such prerequisites. Also included are proactive strategies such as
conflict resolution, nonviolent action, community building, and
democratization of authority.
The peace process additionally must acknowledge and contend with its
alternative war because of the high value status of violence. For
example, while war has brought out the worst kind of behavior in
humans, it has also brought out some of the best. Aside from relieving
boredom and monotony, war has been shown to spawn self-sacrifice,
loyalty, honor, heroism, and courage. Also, war has helped to bring
about significant social changes such as racial and sexual integration,
freedom, democracy and a sense of national pride. Because of its
apparent utilitarian value and its ability to enervate, violence has been
solidly embedded in the national psyche of many countries. As a result,
its elimination will be no easy feat1.
Colombia is a democratic country, located in South America, which has a
constitution in which is written the laws for compliance. It has been a
country with great violence over the years by social inequalities,
disrespect, intolerance and other factors that cause people to perform
acts that harm his neighbor with an educational model resembles that of
the Netherlands, this model does not adapt it to needs of country to
become in a tool that the Colombian State should be used to mitigate
1 LEO R. SANDY AND RAY PERKINS, JR.

http://jupiter.plymouth.edu/~lsandy/peacedef.html

this violence and achieve peace, because having access to a school,

college or university, the person can be formed not only in knowledge as
well as person.
For example, there are 12,600 schools of which 8600 are public, there
are 32 universities. Public schools graduate more than seventy percent
of the total annual graduates. However, only a tiny fraction of these
young people seem judged fit to aspire to join the largest and most
prestigious public university in the country. To make matters worse, the
few who dare play with downside: while four out of every 100 graduates
of public schools that were submitted to the National were admitted,
eight out of 100 graduates of private schools they succeeded. Also the
model implement has to adapt to needs of country considering the
problems and look for solutions to improve without to omit the love and
human affect.
Currently there is a Peace Process in which the Colombian government is
negotiating with the FARC in Havana- Cuba, as a focal point for the
dialogues to achieve total demobilization and not more deaths, however
the events that happened in the Cauca shows there is disagreement with
some members of the FARC, because of they feel violated if they return
to society, because as mentioned earlier, few opportunities that the
state provides people with their studies, but neither is an excuse for
killing innocent people.
The lack of education not only in colleges or schools, but in homes where
the family is the basis of the core of society, makes evident all currently
living Colombia, because if there is a good education by parents and
continue with school facilities in the state provides, not as background
but as paramount, did not exist in such greater magnitude.
The people are different, think different, and fight for what you always
want and but not pass over each other, and if home values are
strengthen with the education, giving more opportunities for it to enter
Schools and universities things would be much better.