ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on the work of CoPaz (Peace Builders), whose objective is to promote human rights, especially those of children, adolescents, and women, while encouraging the construction of a culture of peace, through popular education, art, philosophy, and sports. CoPaz seeks to empower, liberate, and inspire as well as denaturalize structural violence for dealing with multipoverty. This chapter reveals that using multidisciplinary activity-based approaches of peace education addresses structural violence. We review the perspectives, disciplines, and theories used by CoPaz as well as the experiences of its participants in Rosario, Argentina. Then, we the describe challenges of our work and our response to the national mandate in 2020 for closed schools during the pandemic. The instruction for peace during the school closures entailed our design, development, and distribution of booklets for the CoPaz participants. The distance education combined arts and literacy skills with observational reflections. Methodologically, CoPaz used a multidisciplinary approach, from anthropology, political science, pedagogy, and law based on the quantitative and qualitative analyses of the situations presented. Finally, this chapter analyzes how to promote change from an adversarial paradigm into a collaborative one, where empathy, creativity, and collaboration are the founding values of the relationships between young people.
