Universities: trainers of the architects of peace

Abstract

Twenty-five years have passed since the signing of the Peace Agreements in El Salvador (1992-2017) and our country continues to be one of the most violent in the world. Certainly, if we compare ourselves with the times of the conflict, the violence we are experiencing today is much more senseless and irrational, destroying lives and economic and development projects due to incomprehensible and unjustifiable logic from every point of view. So far, every attempt to overcome this unfortunate situation seems to have failed. Politicians, police forces and the military have been testing various attempts at a solution, and the universities have dedicated themselves above all to analyzing the problem, determining its causes and proposing solutions. In other words, the universities have focused on the phenomenon only from one of their substantive functions, research. However, very rarely the country's universities have considered how to contribute to the solution of this situation of violence from teaching.