Johan Galtung and Education for Peace.

The Path to Human Reconciliation and the Recovery of social fabric

Abstract

This research, resulting from a qualitative documentary review, aimed to analyze Johan Galtung's contributions to peace education, in an attempt to clarify hopeful horizons that expand the path toward human reconciliation and the recovery of social fabric. The results indicate that life in society, due to its undeniable dynamism and the human plurality, requires enhancing democratic processes as well as humanity's willingness to engage in fruitful and symmetrical dialogue. This means recognizing the other as a subject of rights, who is entitled to a series of guarantees that seek to safeguard their moral integrity and human dignity above any human conditioning. Achieving these objectives is understood as the reclaiming force of fraternal reconciliation that results in respectful treatment and the reconstruction of social fabric. What has been discussed constitutes a global invitation to overcome differences, manage controversies, and handle conflicts through both civic and civilized approaches. In conclusion, ensuring the construction of a possible world requires, in the first instance, the consensual overlay of moral principles and universal values based on which to outline the horizons of a supportive, tolerant, and democratic conviviality. This implies learning to manage differences through horizontal exchange and the unification of wills around the common goal: to live within the framework of permanent and sustainable dignification.