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Peace Cultures and Cultural Practices in Colombia

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Psychosocial Approaches to Peace-Building in Colombia

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A behavioural analysis perspective of cultural practices related to peace processes in Colombia is presented in this chapter. Cultural practices are understood as sets of shared behaviours selected and maintained by their functional/contingent relations to reinforcement conditions inside the groups and the aggregate products at a social level. The conceptual debate about the terms metacontingency and macrocontingency, and their utility in understanding cultural practices are also discussed, and are applied to the Colombian sociopolitical actual situation. A description of different social actors working in favour of cultures of peace in Colombia is included, and the need for more conjoined and contingent relationships are finally emphasized.

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The author is grateful to Ms. Megan Petrucelli, student at Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Oregon, USA), who performed an excellent revision of the English version of this paper.

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Appendix

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Education for Peace and Conflict Resolution Foundation, created in Cali, as a Christian organization.

Proclade Foundation, founded by a Claretian organization, gives financial support to projects related to peace education; in one of these young people of 43 rural communities resistant to be part of the armed conflict participated.

Exploring Communities for Peace in Colombia II: Communication for Peace System (SIPAZ) was a project supported by the Canadian International Center of Development Research. Mauricio Beltrán, from Multicolor Colombia Foundation was the director.

The Colombian Platform of Human Rights, Democracy and Development includes 110 social organizations.

Peace Media (MPP—Medios para la Paz).

CORDEPAZ (Development for Peace Corporation) was created in 1999, by the Commerce Chamber and the Diocese of Villavicencio, Meta, with the purpose of replicating the peace program at the Magdalena Medio region.

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de Valderrama, B. (2014). Peace Cultures and Cultural Practices in Colombia. In: Sacipa-Rodriguez, S., Montero, M. (eds) Psychosocial Approaches to Peace-Building in Colombia. Peace Psychology Book Series, vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04549-8_3

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