The academy against the post-conflict and peace. Case study

Abstract

Since 2014, the Autonomous University of the Caribbean, UAC, supports the national policy of dialogue and peace building in Colombia from the Caribbean region: a process that only recently has shown it’s first political and international consequences. To this end, the UAC structured and implemented the ‘Chair of Peace’ in Undergraduate Studies; created the –kwon as- Institute for Higher Studies for Peace; established series of  national and international alliances, generating activities and events in which the university community participates; involving it into the process as part of the coordinated effort to achieve its social acceptance. This descriptive study develops a first phase of diagnosis throwing information obtained through a survey of a sample of 281 students of the subject Society and Culture for Peace looking to know: a) Knowledge and Pre-knowledge students have on History of Colombia and the Armed Conflict; b) the mechanisms and channels that these young people use to obtain the information; and c) the student's (s) perception of the Peace Agreement and the Colombian Conflict.