ABSTRACT
In centre-periphery violent conflicts each side perceives of peace as the triumph of its goals. The state quickly becomes aware of the impossibility of eradicating the armed group. The latter's war is imaginary: it is not organised in battalions, and neither are there battle fields making a final defeat possible. The dynamics which determine the decision of the government are related to the assessment of the political leadership as to whether a solution to the conflict will favour its continuation in power. The content of the political culture must also be based on pacifism, humanism and pluralism, rescuing the meaning of these values from the double discourse into which they have been embedded by the nation-state elites in defense of the centre. The creation of this new political culture has to endeavor to change the identity markers of the radical group. The end of violent confrontations supposes, as has happened so often in history, the end of stigmas and stereotypes.
