“We are the issue of a belligerent civilization, which faces the challenge of building a Culture for Peace”. Federico Mayor Zaragoza

Teachers and members of our society have not been formed in a democratic, participative, and non-antagonistic culture. It is an urgent necessity for our society to learn how to diagnose conflicts from a scientific point of view, knowing possible ways to prevent, solve, and control them so as to allow a pacific coexistence.

We accept this challenge by training the members of the educational community in mediation, under a proposal called: Pedagogy for Peace.

As a democratic public institution and due to its multiplicative possibilities, the school is the only environment left where the foundations of a culture for peace may be settled.

The educational mediation may be approached either by an endogenous perspective, i.e. intra-institutional approach, or an exogenous perspective, i.e. an educational mediator external to the establishment. We have chosen the first possibility, forming negociators and mediators belonging to each school who are able to handle their own conflicts and trained to prevent, solve and control conflicts. a) prevention: satisfying needs, creating bridges and teaching new abilities, b) control: decreasing the level of conflicts to a degree where solution is possible, acting as guardians of the peace and witnesses, and c) solution: negotiating and mediating.

The essential points of this training are as follows.
Collaborative negotiation in the solution of their own conflicts.
Educational mediation includes the preparation of neutral third-parties and allows the solution of conflicts at all levels and ranks within the educational community.
Both abilities are achieved by a specific method called “talking until understanding”, adapted to the educational community

The contents developed are those included in the official planning for the Educational Transformation of the Argentine Republic: Conflictology, Possible Change, Resources for the Handling of Conflicts, Methods of Negotiation and Mediation, Communicative and Emotional Abilities, and Systemic Approach. Nevertheless teachers have not been qualified in these subjects in their academic formation, they must incorporate them in their daily work in class. The high degree of factibility of our proposal is that even though it starts with a personal engagement of the members of the educational community, it promotes the formation of small influential groups that will produce changes not only at the institution but in the system as a whole.

This course on Pedagogy for Peace has been
Approved by several official services: National Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Education of the Provinces of Santa Fe, Entre Ríos , Salta, and Misiones
Declared as having National Interest by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Argentine Republic, Provincial Interest by Misiones, was given priority for its implementation at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (University Annex), and stated as Enlarging Course by the Universidad Central of Venezuela
Dictated in several countries: Venezuela, Mexico, and Argentina. In this latter in the provinces of Córdoba, Salta, Entre Ríos, Misiones, and Santa Fe, from 1999, under the modalities of full attendance, part-attendance, at a distance, remote classroom via sattelite, and at a distance in campus through video. More than 20 times was repeated covering a target population of 1800 people, from which 80% were teachers in activity acting as spreading agents

The most significant results of this Course in its three levels, were not the learnings acquired by the attendants, but the fact that they have promoted the implementation of programs and projects in the educational institutions. As a post-course activity, tutorial follow-up of projects is carried out whenever this service is asked for. This activity enables us to assert that the training in Pedagogy for Peace operates a true transformation in the ways of coexistence within the educational institutions.


RESUME
MARTA N. PAILLET: National High School Teacher – Lawyer graduated from UNL – Mediator from the AIRAD (Escuela Argentina de Mediación), Bs.As. and from the MEDIATION CENTER INC. of MIAMI, FLORIDA, USA – Specialized in the design of collaborative processes of agreement and handling of Public Complex Conflicts. Director and member of the teaching staff of the FUNDACION INTERNACIONAL PARA EL NUEVO PENSAMIENTO, located in San juan de Puerto Rico. Worked as a teacher at secondary, tertiary, and universitary levels – Founder of the Centro Interdisciplinario de Mediación (INTERMED) – Member of the civil association CONSENSOS, Center for the Solution of Conflicts in Santa Fe – Member of the Instituto de Medios Alternativos de Resolución de Conflictos of the Colegio de Abogados de Santa Fe, 1º District – Masters Professor in Environmental Mediation of the Universidad Central de Caracas (Venezuela). Works as a professional mediator – Dictated several courses, seminars, meetings, and coordinated workshops on mediation and mediation at school for local and foreign institutions. Has published and given lectures at National and Regional Congresses.

JORGELINA I. AMSTUTZ: National High School Teacher – Lawyer graduated from UNL – Specialized in procedural law – Mediator from the Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, UNL – Specialized in Familiar Mediation – Professor at UNL from 1981 – Founder of Centro Interdisciplinario de Mediación (INTERMED) – Member of the civil association CONSENSOS, Center for the Solution of Conflicts in Santa Fe – Member of the Instituto de Medios Alternativos de Resolución de Conflictos of the Colegio de Abogados de Santa Fe – 1º District - Works as a professional mediator – Dictated several courses, seminars, and coordinated workshops on mediation and solution of conflicts at public and private institutions. Has published articles in local and foreign magazines and newspapers. Co-authored the support material of the courses on Educational Mediation and Mediators Training. Lecturer in local and regional Congresses and Meetings on Educational Mediation.

ELDA L. MAZZARANTANI: National High School Teacher – Professor of Educational Sciencies – Mediator – Post-graduate in Pedagogy and Didactics – General Coordinator of innovative Projects at the Ministry of Education of the Province of Santa Fe (1997 – 2000) – Member of the National Committee for the Evaluation of Innovative Projects (2001) – International consultant in Educational innovations at the Ministry of Education and Sports of the Republic of Peru (1999) – Chief of Department of Educational Projects at the Instituto Superior del Magisterio Nº 13 of the Province of Santa Fe (1995) – Associated professor in INTERMED (Centro de Mediación Interdisciplinaria de la ciudad de Santa Fe) – Former teacher in elementary and secondary levels. Teacher in tertiary and universitary levels. Co-authored the support material for Educational Mediation.



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