Argumentación y persuasión, elementos orientadores para la construcción de comunidades de paz en Colombia

Abstract

The proposal offers to take argumentation and persuasion into social practice, so that these capacities are rehabilitated in the Caldas displaced units and the Cazuca displaced units, as the elements on which they are offered the possibility of training from workshops and a diploma so that they acquire the epistemic tools that favor the construction of the authentic sense of truth on which peace is built. From the new rhetoric (Perelman and Tyteca) we will also train in communities capacities such as criticism and discernment so that they can approach and build their own arguments around truth and Peace, as inseparable elements in the Havana agreements between the Government Colombian and the FARC; arguments that must be reconstructed with the authentic sense from the same communities from the epistemic elements that the New Rhetoric offers us, as opposed to any dogmatism, irrationalism or utilitarian positivism of the truth. In effect, the Colombian conflict broke the ties between individuals, communities and peoples, on the other hand it severed the relations of many communities with the State, this matter, however, was intended to be corrected from the so-called Havana Agreement, on which we will resume both in everything that allows us to glimpse a dogmatic or pragmatic truth that is trying to criticize, in order to propose in second instance to the communities affected by the conflict, “epistemic” tools on which they themselves negotiate their truth and build their peace on the basis of argumentation and persuasion. For neither the technicalities of legal proof, nor experience, nor logical deduction can provide us with the ultimate solution to the problems of peace. We are located beyond the legal and governmental discourse, and from the new rhetoric we provide communities with criteria for reworking, reflection and criticism leading to rhetorical persuasion, and the argued adherence of the speeches, thus, from the rescue of the New rhetoric to distance itself from the dogmatism of the truth, whose positivization has installed the country in new conflicts, aggressions and violence and to place ourselves on the side of the construction of truth with an individual, community and social meaning.