Peace building from the perspective of Social Work La construcción de paz desde el Trabajo Social

Abstract

Colombia has suffered all kinds of violence for many years, this has led its inhabitants and governments to generate processes and find mechanisms to achieve peace. It is undeniable that the agreement carried out in Havana represents the hope of transforming these situations, and likewise requires the commitment of social science professionals as guarantor agents of these processes in the communities. This research framed in the macro project "Strengthening of citizenship and community work as a strategy for the construction of a culture of peace" of a qualitative, phenomenological nature, aimed to analyze the perceptions of peace from the perspective of social workers in training of a private university in the border area with Venezuela, where the main result stands out that peace is a social construction in which the right to respect the other without any distinction prevails, is to allow a healthy coexistence free of violence and in harmony between inhabitants. In addition, it is concluded that peace is essential to learn from the country's past and from it to reconfigure the socio-educational, socio-political and socio-cultural dimensions, in favor of future generations