A mediação pacífica de conflitos e a promoção da cultura de paz em uma escola pública estadual de Pelotas

Abstract

This critical-reflexive report is the result of a theoretically-centered research on the interface between the fields of Law and Education and locus of the investigation is a Rio Grande do Sul State Public High School in the city of Pelotas. The research aimed mainly to build knowledge to face manifestations of violence and, secondly, at contributing for the debate and perception of students, in the first year of high school of evening classes, concerning the Mediation of Conflicts and the Promotion of Culture of Peace, as well as to experience it through the Transformative Mediation. Among the main authors who are the basis for the present work we mention Paulo Freire (1992, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2011) who permeates all the research, Galtung (1976) and Callado (2004) in terms of the Culture of Peace and Bush and Folger (2008) concerning the Mediation of Conflicts. The present work is mainly characterized, methodologically, by an interventionist research marked by a pedagogical intervention. It is, thus, a qualitative approach investigation which used the Content Analysis as the primary methodology for data handling. The instruments of data collection were two open questionnaires and written productions from the participants. The results show that the subjects built new and powerful discussions and the sharing of knowledge about the Culture of Peace and the Mediation of Conflicts. It is suggested that the inclusion of a training course and the qualification of teachers, in order to inspire the construction of knowledge, so that they act as mediators of conflict and with the promotion of the Culture of Peace inside the school.