CAPAZ Working Paper: “Territorial Peace: Connecting Moral Imagination and Geographic Imagination”
Cover of the CAPAZ Working Paper 5-2019
Abstract:
Based on the concepts-practices of social organisations, peace is a political process that consists of (re)appropriating a geographic space to develop an economic-cultural project of dignified life, which is ecologically sustainable, and protected from violence and war. The search for peace is territorial because the purpose of dealing with violence is translated into the goal that the territory -that materially and symbolically appropriate living space- will again -or for the first time- fulfil the collective functions that it has lost through the armed conflict. Communities have two interconnected resources with which to restore the collective functions of the living space: their moral imagination and their geographical imagination. The document shows what these two dimensions consist of and how they are connected, arguing that this understanding of territorial peace as a conjunction of moral imagination and geographical imagination is a political-epistemological innovation in the field of peace studies.
Keywords:
Territorial peace; geographical imagination; moral imagination; peacebuilding in Colombia; social movements.
Author/researcher
Luis Peña
PhD in social geography and researcher at the Jena Centre for Reconciliation Studies. Researcher and professor at Universidad Externado de Colombia. Co-founder and member of the Critical Geography of Latin American Root group Georaizal. Contact: luis.b.pena@uni-jena.de
Click here to read CAPAZ Working Paper 5-2019 (in Spanish)
Peña, L. Paz territorial: conectando imaginación moral e imaginación geográfica (Territorial Peace: Connecting Moral Imagination and Geographic Imagination). CAPAZ Working Paper 5-2019. Bogotá, November 2019, 52 p. ISSN: 2711-0354
(Text: Claudia Maya, Text in English: Tiziana Laudato)