Book review: Methodologies of work for peaceful coexistence. Círculo Rojo, Spain. ISBN: 978-84-1145-947-1

Abstract

For decades, peace studies have been positioned in different contexts in three dimensions: as studies, as actions that transform or as research. The school is a space where peace is present in its three dimensions.
In Mexico and Latin America, different techniques, strategies and tools have been developed and implemented to promote peace and prevent violence, which, due to their successful results, have been replicated in different classrooms and schools. Irma Isabel Salazar Mastache, specialist in studies of school violence, peaceful conflict management, peace education, interculturality for peace, school coexistence, among other topics and lines of research that help the good living and good coexistence, has published the book Methodologies of work for peaceful coexistence, under the following premises:
What kind of coexistence do we want? what kind of peace do we need? why are there multiple peace and different ways of coexisting?
How do the programs that promote school coexistence intervene? What is their scope and progress in terms of violence prevention? Why is it said that school violence continues to increase?
These questions were posed by the doctor in educational sciences, who was concerned and concerned about the prevention of school violence and new forms of school violence.
concerned with the prevention of school violence and new forms of coexistence, writes the book with the objective of providing playful and pedagogical tools that help transform scenarios of school violence into spaces of peaceful, integral and lasting coexistence.
According to the text's introduction, which covers pages 11-16, Working Methodologies for Peaceful Coexistence is made up by
peaceful coexistence is integrated by three chapters oriented to the knowledge, understanding, reflection and action of components that allow peaceful, integral and lasting school coexistence.