Abstract

LOPES, Luís Fernando  and  CAVAZZANI, André Luiz Moscaleski. Education for peace and new technologies: challenges and possibilities in contemporary Brazil. Acta Educ. [online]. 2025, vol.47, e65696.  Epub Dec 01, 2024. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v47i1.65696.

This bibliographic study aims to present some reflections on the theme of education for peace and new technologies, considering the challenges and possibilities of promoting education for peace considering the integration of new information and communication technologies and their potential as supports to encourage dialogue, communication, and exchange, activities necessary for a culture of peace. The sources used consider data from documents issued by: Credit Suisse Research Institute (2022), Brazilian Public Security Forum (2022), Foundation for Young Australians (2017), Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (2022) and I Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA, 2018, 2019). Information and communication technologies have an undeniable connective potential as mediation supports in the formative and informative processes that demand the circulation of information. The importance of the theme is highlighted in the face of a glaring contradiction between current human needs and what is applied financially in technological instruments that promote mass human violence and destruction. In this sense, the question that guides the development of reflections problematizes the extent to which new technologies can promote education for peace, in a context marked by constant episodes of violence and violation of Human Rights. The theoretical contribution mainly considers the contributions of Hobsbawm (2012), Latour (2020), Harari (2020), Francisco (2020) and Guimarães (2011). The results indicate that anchored in ethical-philosophical foundations and adequate methodological criteria, the new technologies, despite their ambiguous character, can effectively contribute, as a support for communication, community experiences, training, and the development of actions for the realization of education for peace.

Keywords : digital technologies; humanization; culture of peace.

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