Theoretical and Methodological Proposals for Integral Peace in Eduardo Sandoval Forero

Abstract

Sandoval-Forero's comprehensive intercultural peace presents two genealogies that explain his proposal,
the theoretical and the epistemological. In the first one, it is found that peace is a construct that is explained,
always from an unofficial position, of decolonization and from Latin American critical thought, based on
a series of elements: 1) interculturality from inter-ethnic relations, 2) non-universalist education that starts
from critical pedagogies, 3) the economy, not that of neoliberal capitalism but that of social economies and
4) democracy that considers pacifist empowerment. It is exemplified mainly in the Mexican indigenism
and in the Zapatista educational proposals, which were developed with a focus on peace, with justice,
freedom, democracy and dignity.
In Sandoval-Forero's epistemological genealogy of integral peace, one must start from an epistemological
decolonization, in the sense of getting rid of scientific Eurocentrism to be based on an unofficial or
hegemonic anthropology. The qualitative approach is identified as the basis and a multi-method
methodological proposal is made, in which procedures from ethnography and Participatory Action
Research are specifically combined that generate a radical break with the rigid structures of positivism.