Critical Reflections on Violence in Mexico from Injustice: Imaginatively Project to Build Peace [Spanish]

Authors

  • Dora Elvira García-González Directora de Investigación Escuela de Educación, Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Coordinadora Cátedra UNESCO-Tecnológico de Monterrey Ética y Cultura de Paz para el alcance de los Derecho

Keywords:

Injustice, Violence, Imagination, Reality, Values, Pluralism

Abstract

This article proposes to reconsider the feasibility of overcoming violent situations. Situations in which reality imposes itself in an indefectible and aggressive manner and in which it is hard to generate spaces of justice, since in them, social inequality and marginalization prevail. The persistence of injustice is the breeding ground for violence. An explicit case of such conditions was the massacre of 43 students of the Rural Teachers’ College in Ayotzinapa (Guerrero) on November 26, 2014. Under these circumstances, and, in order to formulate alternatives where peace becomes a viable horizon, this paper assumes the perspective about real injustice developed by Luis Villoro. Based on the recognition of this condition, the collective imagination of alternatives for overcoming violence and achieving peace becomes possible.

Author Biography

Dora Elvira García-González, Directora de Investigación Escuela de Educación, Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Coordinadora Cátedra UNESCO-Tecnológico de Monterrey Ética y Cultura de Paz para el alcance de los Derecho

PhD in Philosophy (National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1998). Member of the National System of Researchers Level III. Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. Research director, School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences (2014-) and Director of the journal En-claves del Pensamiento of the Tecnológico de Monterrey (1997-). Coordinator of the Chair UNESCO-Tecnológico de Monterrey on Ethics and Peace Culture for the attainment of human rights(1997-). She has an extensive number of publications in renowned journals both national and international, and is the author of more than 70 chapters in books, coordinated books and co-authored papers.

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Published

2016-12-13

Issue

No. 26: Enero-junio 2017

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