Educating for peace. Critical thinking, local responsibility and global engagement. María Oianguren 2025
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]‘The Triple Nexus and the Strengthening of Local Agency: Redefining Humanitarian Action, Development and Peace’ presents contributions from over fifty members of academia, the professional sector and community leaders, focusing on conceptualisation, localisation, operationalisation and peace within debates on the triple nexus. These contributions were gathered during the five sessions of the “Permanent Triple Nexus...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Over the course of a year, Gernika Gogoratuz, in collaboration with Gernikatik Mundura, has been working on a document setting out economic and eco-social proposals for the future of the region, which has been shared with associations, groups and individuals in Busturialdea. To this end, following an initial draft by Ramón Zallo Elgezabal, ideas...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This guide gathers a pedagogical framework from which to work on the culture of peace for a transformative education. María Oianguren, director of Gernika Gogoratuz is the author of this material.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=""]ÍNDICE 1. INTRODUCCIÓN 2. CULTURA DE PAZ 3. CONCEPCIÓN Y EVOLUCIÓN DE LA PAZ 3.1 Dimensión histórica 3.2 Línea del tiempo 4. EL PARADIGMA DE LA CULTURA DE LA PAZ 4.1...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Working document for a shock plan and a strategic plan (2024-2034) [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Gernika Gogoratuz Peace Research Center, within its lines of work on memory, peace and conflict, includes a dimension of critical thinking on alternative futures applied to social reality. To talk about peace is also to contribute to create life options. Building a peaceful society...