La pedagogía para la paz como estrategia para la transformación de imaginarios sociales de violencia en niños y niñas de la región del Catatumbo

Abstract

This article carries out a documentary study using the hermeneutical method, with the purpose of analyzing the social reality in which the children lives in the midst of the armed conflict in the Catatumbo region, emphasizing the serious effects that this situation generates in the integral development of the childhood and also how the violence appropriates of this reality and influences the ways of perceiving the social world through imaginaries meanings in favor of violence that affects their social construction process and has an impact on the adult of tomorrow. Therefore, from the theory of social constructionism, the text describes the self-creative and transformative capacity of the human being, which allows that in the face of a reality disturbed by the violence that affects the construction of subjectivities and identities of children, could develop changes processes, based on methodologies and strategies proposed from the pedagogy for peace, being a priority their design and implementation that it should be included within the regional agenda in Catatumbo, aimed to work against the effects of the armed conflict on children and move from a violent culture to a culture of peace.