Everyday Life
Presentation
Everyday life is the space in which every action, every behaviour or attitude we take reveal the relationships we have established with others and nature in order to satisfy our needs in a concrete historical moment.
But behind this apparent normality everyday life conceals a sphere full of invisible conflicts and unease which we usually do not pursue any further than their surface effects. Only a critical attitude toward this “normality” may reveal the clues necessary in order to fully understand the genesis of this space called everyday life, where the social processes of our society melt together on a macro and micro level and become concrete, and in which we simultaneously are produced by and are producers of our environment. For this, Everyday Life and Peace is an ideal field of multidisciplinary intervention and investigation in order to work for a profound social transformation and towards a Culture of Peace.
Goals
- To intervene and act on the normalized reality of our environment by community intervention programmes which allow us to decode everyday conflicts in their social and historic dimensions and which yield the necessary criteria and elements to undertake their transformation.
- To recover the group as a space for reflection and thinking and as a privileged space in which to effect transformation.
- To strengthen the social fabric and recover the capacity for new institutions in the community.
- To discover and raise the prestige of Everyday Life as a field for investigation, intervention and social construction.
Projects
- Training Project - Training Course on Peace Building and Creative Transformation of Conflict.
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Training Project - Treatment of Conflict within the Community, in Gernika-Lumo (coming up soon.)
Gernika Gogoratuz, based on reflection and experience in the field, offers training courses on Peace Building and Transformation of Conflict as tools in order to come up with theoretical and dynamic proposals to create platforms for peaceful and democratic coexistence.
Emergent conflicts on a local level, in the context of a globalized world, present a challenge for creating and using new and alternative tools for their transformation. Our courses offer interesting opportunities in order to face this challenge thanks to their combination of theory and local and international experiences.
This line of training projects is financed by the Department for Human Rights of the Basque Government and the Gernika Gogoratuz Association.
Activities
- Taller 2009: Madres y padres ayudando a crecer en la diversidad e igualdad
Los padres y las madres se enfrentan a la crianza y educación de los hijos llenos de ilusión y entusiasmo.
Pero también tienen dudas sobre cómo contribuir adecuadamente al proceso de crecimiento: desde qué roles, desde qué modelos de autoridad. Se angustian frente a situaciones cotidianas vividas con peso y agobio. Se preocupan a medida que los hijos crecen “y se les van de las manos”...
Os ofrecemos un espacio compartido para poder reflexionar, sobre estas dudas, dificultades, preocupaciones “normales”; poder encontrar criterios y sentir más seguridad y satisfacción en la tarea de ser padres y madres.
Publications and Audiovisual Material
- Muñoz Hernán, Yolanda (Gernika Gogoratuz); Ramos Pérez, Mª Eugenia (FOMED); GEUZ (Centro Universitario para la Transformación de Conflictos):
Guía para el diálogo y la Resolución de los Conflictos Cotidianos.
Donostia-San Sebastián: Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa, 2006
Contact
Andreas Schaefter
Chair of the area Everyday Life and Peace