… EDUCATION FOR PEACE …
An article from the Gobierno del Estado de Jalisco (translation by CPNN)
The Government of Jalisco through the Secretariat of Planning and Citizen Participation (SPPC), has began the training process in Culture of Peace for the reconstruction of the social fabric, in order to promote communities of care in the municipalities of the State.
The strategy “Reconstruction of the Social Fabric” is promoted in coordination with the Secretariat of the Social Assistance System. It involves the improvement of the immediate urban environments of people and their families.
The officials launching the project included the Secretary of Planning and Citizen Participation, Margarita Sierra Díaz de Rivera, and María del Carmen Bayardo Solórzano, Director of Strategic Projects, representing the Secretary of the Social Assistance System. They presented the program’s guidelines and its relevance to the State Government’s peace-building strategy. Alberto Esquer Gutiérrez also participated in this event.
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Is there progress towards a culture of peace in Mexico?
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The project is included, through various levels of intervention, to the cross-cutting theme indicated in the State Plan for Governance and Development (PEGD) and to the strategic themes of the State Program for a Culture of Peace.
The Secretariat for Planning and Citizen Participation is the governing body in charge of mainstreaming the Culture of Peace in the State of Jalisco and is responsible for coordinating the actions issued by the executive branch in matters of culture of peace, as well as mainstreaming, supervising, evaluating and proposing strategies to progressively integrate the peace approach in the different areas of government.
The head of the SPPC, Margarita Sierra, said that: “Everything we do is in terms of governance and with a focus on peace. We have to give meaning to government programs to respond to the need of citizens to live in peace in all their spaces.”
Among the institutional challenges that were raised are: training in the culture of peace; inter-institutional linkage and coordination, and the construction with citizens of an agenda to address territorial needs. To learn more about the culture of peace and governance, please access: participa.jalisco.gob.mx/participacion-ciudadana.
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