Political Culture for Peace

Universidad EAFIT

Course Description

  • Course Name

    Political Culture for Peace

  • Host University

    Universidad EAFIT

  • Location

    Medellín, Colombia

  • Area of Study

    Latin American Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Science

  • Language Level

    Advanced

    Hours & Credits

  • Contact Hours

    48
  • Recommended U.S. Semester Credits
    3
  • Recommended U.S. Quarter Units
    4
  • Overview

    Course description:

    Colombia, within its singularities, connects or crosses forms of modern political culture
    (representations, sensibilities and practices of modernity related to public power) with
    forms of political culture, social relations and cultural practices characteristic of
    non-modern societies. The political and institutional order, from the formation of the
    republic in the nineteenth century, even to the beginning of the twenty-first century,
    formally obey the guidelines of a "society in peace", that is, those of a modern society,
    democratic, peaceful, rule of law or where the "social pact" of political coexistence rules.
    Nonetheless, Colombia is recognized in the contemporary arena as the country where
    an internal armed conflict has lasted the longest. Some intellectuals of politics, offering
    an explanation of the origins of the conflict, assert that "the Colombian war has been
    long, complex, discontinuous and, above all, political" (Giraldo, 2014, p.2). A balance in
    this direction will allow us to corroborate the thesis that wars and / or peace are
    experiences that pass through political cultures.


    The modern democracies find in the forms of legitimation and in the political cultures
    referring to construction and interpretation of great importance. In The Economist, a
    contemporary international publication, a sort of democratic classification of countries
    was circulated based on evaluation and experience from five indicators: 1) holding free
    elections, 2) civil liberties, 3) government functioning, 4 ) political culture, and 5) political
    participation. The report concludes that out of 165 countries evaluated, only 28 of them
    could be considered full democracies, 54 faulty democracies and 85 remaining
    1/2 democracies, 30 are combinations with some democracy and 55 are authoritarian
    systems. Colombia, in particular, was located in all countries of defective democracy, and was ranked 67th.


    In this sense, the course of political culture for peace, of the undergraduate in Political
    Science, bets him to understand the notion political culture as the presence not only of
    ideas, of the cognitive, but also of the sensitivities and the valuations, is the fields of the
    affective and the evaluative, where the category suggested by Marc Bloch, in his classic
    work on the thaumaturgos kings, known as mental political attitudes, makes sense, and
    which Jacques Le Goff later takes up to show the renewal of history politics, thanks to
    the interdisciplinary work with anthropology and sociology, that put "the notion of power
    and the facts relative to the power" in the center of its investigations.

     

    Evaluation:

    En concordancia, en primer lugar, con los objetivos temáticos de los cursos del
    pregrado en Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad EAFIT, en segundo lugar, con las
    metodologías y la didáctica utilizada que tiene como misión formar politólogos que
    respondan a los ideales de una sociedad plenamente democrática y a los Valores
    Institucionales de la Universidad, en tercer lugar, con la educación de politólogos
    claramente conscientes de su ser y su identidad disciplinar, sin que por ello se
    desconozca la capacidad de trabajo interdisciplinar que le ofrece el pregrado, y en
    cuarto lugar, con la formación de politólogos conscientes de su saber vinculado a los
    grandes campos de las ciencias políticas y profesionales de EAFIT que porten una
    rigurosa capacidad analítica textual y contextual de la política y lo político, este curso
    propone las siguientes formas de evaluación que el profesor puede combinar como lo
    considere más conveniente:
    Relatorías de seminario e Informes de lectura.
    Ensayos y textos de reflexión.
    Informes de investigación.
    Análisis comparados y conectados.
    Exámenes parciales.
    Ponencias y exposiciones orales.
    Trabajos en el Laboratorio DATAPOL.
    Salidas de campo.
    Conversatorios.

    Bibliography:

    Aznar Fernández-Montesinos, Federico. Entender la guerra en el siglo XXI,
    Madrid, Universidad Complutense, Ministerio de Defensa, 2011
    9.2. Aznar Fernández-Montesinos, Federico. La ecuación de la guerra, Barcelona,
    Montesinos, 2011.
    9.3. Bayona Sarmiento, Manuel. Fortalecer la institucionalidad: prerrequisito para
    construir la paz en el postacuerdo colombiano, disponible en:
    http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/110/11046399012.pdf
    9.4. Bencardino, Julián Arévalo (2014). Construcción de paz y un nuevo modelo de
    construcción de Estado, en: Revista de Economía Institucional, vol.16, N.30, pp.
    131-169.
    9.5. Boudent, Jacques. Historia universal de los ejércitos, Barcelona, Hispano Europea,
    1966.
    6/8
    9.6. García Picazo, Paloma. La guerra y la paz, en teoría : un recorrido por la historia y
    el pensamiento de los clásicos internacionales, Madrid, Tecnos, 2016.
    9.7. García-Durán, M. (2006). Paz en el territorio: dinámicas de expansión geográfica
    del accionar colectivo por la paz en Colombia 1978-2003, en: Territorios, N.15,
    pp.9-32.
    9.8. Giraldo Ramírez, Jorge. El rastro de Caín una aproximación filosófica a los
    conceptos de guerra, paz y guerra civil, Bogotá: Escuela Nacional Sindical, 2001.
    9.9. Gómez, Gabriel Ignacio. ¿Cómo construir cultura de paz desde la Universidad?
    Una reflexión después del plebiscito, disponible en:
    http://aprendeenlinea.udea.edu.co/revistas/index.php/
    almamater/article/viewFile/326606/20783911
    9.10. Gutiérrez Edgar. Guatemala. Paz de baja intensidad, disponible en:
    http://nuso.org/media/articles/downloads/2663_1.pdf
    9.11. Hanson, Víctor Davis. Guerra: el origen de todo, Madrid, Turner, 2011
    9.12. Kagan, Donald. Sobre las causas de la guerra y la preservación de la paz, México,
    Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003.
    9.13. Lederach, J. (1998). Construyendo la paz. Reconciliación sostenible en sociedades
    divididas, Bilbao, Gernika Gogoratuz (Capítulos 7, 8, 9 y 10).
    9.14. Lederach, J. (2012). The Origins and Evolution of Infrastructures for Peace: A
    Personal Reflection. Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, 7 (3), 8-13.
    9.15. Martínez López, Fernando y Muñoz, Francisco A. El reconocimiento de la paz en
    las culturas políticas Mediterráneas, disponible en:
    http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/110/11046399012.pdf

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