Construcción de paz a partir del alfabetismo jurídico

Abstract

Literacy, consisting of a person's predicable ability to read and write, represents one of the main topics of interest on the world agenda; in this regard, UNESCO has stated that there are still 773 million illiterate young people and adults in the world despite the significant reduction in illiteracy rates in the last five decades; in turn, the Organization's Global Alliance for Literacy believes that literacy represents an intrinsic component of the right to education and a driving force for sustainable development, since, inter alia, it reduces poverty margins and expands development opportunities. In turn, legal literacy in the strict sense is aimed at providing subjects with basic notions and tools associated with Law, while in its functional facet -functional legal literacy- it seeks to ensure that through such an exercise of legal approximation the subjects develop the ability to use what they have learned in the exercise of their rights, full compliance with the duties imposed by the current legal system, as well as in the peaceful resolution of conflicts generated during the process of social interaction and democratic participation. Similar to what happened with literacy in general, the legal aspect promotes environments of greater development, reduces poverty margins, strengthens democratic participation and enables the approach of subjects to environments of peace, the latter understood as the phenomenon generated from the knowledge and satisfaction of rights and duties under the ownership of the subjects.