Promote a culture of peace to transform a affected world

Rocío Lancho Garcia – Ciudad Del Vaticano

Cobral is the option of life that calls us to return to spiritual, cultural and social, but also towards active citizenship that can practice a political social impact on the audience. This is exactly what Pax Christi International, Catholic peace movement. His Secretary General, Martha Iniz Romero, explains his interview. In his post since January 1, 2023, Romero is also the Pax Christie coordinator of Latin America and the Caribbean Sea for more than 15 years.

Can you explain in short what is the mission of Pax Christie?

Pax Christi International -PC-, as a Catholic Movement for Peace, promotes spirituality based on absolute faith in the dignity and value of every human person and in the dignity of creation. Reconciliation is in the heart of our mission. Therefore, we encourage the culture of peace, in order to change a world affected by multiple violence, injustice, inequality and great global insecurity, towards life scenarios in harmony, from fair peace.

In a historical moment in which there is a talk about retreating as if it was the only solution, and how the dog suggested as a good and possible alternative?

The world lives a “civilized crisis”, not only related to translation, but to intolerance against migration, individualism and consumption; It is the loss of moral and cultural values. Pax Christi International admits that Realma will increase the vortex of violence, and that violence cannot address conflicts in a sustainable or comprehensive way; On the contrary, it considers that we have the certainty and responsibility for preventing violent conflicts with false media. We agree with Pope Francis when he says that “The war is always a defeat for humanity.” For international Pax Christi, Noviolence is the option of life that invites you to return to spiritual, cultural and social, but also towards active citizenship that can have a political social impact on the audience.

You know the reality of Latin America well, as it faced violence in modern history and armed conflicts. Can you tell us about any concrete context or project in which they worked in favor of the liar with the visual and positive results?

In the southwest of Mexico, in Chiabas, our organizations accompanied our organizations, our organizations, our organizations, for 10 years in their work in enhancing the capabilities of indigenous societies and farmers affected by the investment industry (Mining, Agribushing -Exprack. Entittenuality extracts, health effects and violence against societies.

Since PCI has developed a systematic proposal for seven countries in the region, by analyzing context, the analysis of conflicts and the design of society’s occurrences allowed the participating societies to transfer conflicts in their daily relations in their daily relations -with regard to gender relationships; Designing community protection plans against context risks -which includes illegal armed actors related to organized crime and state violence; Impact -speaking with local and national organizations and networks, in general policies to defend the region.

There was a specific case that was the struggle of Zodevite – the indigenous population movement of people who believe in vitality in defense of life and land, the PCI International Award for PCI 2017, which consists of 40 society in 10 municipalities of Chapas, thanks to the forest resistance operations, open a round of community consultations. Although it is a battle that is not exempt from risk – Defenders of the front line, Four out of five murders of human rights defenders in Latin America occurred in the past two years, the Kwabis force has been able to reverse the project; But this is a long -run battle.

In the words of the poet Zoque MiQueas López, when receiving the PCI Award in Rome: “We are a peaceful and generous people who have never participated in a social protest movement before, but we had to do this before the underlying threat because it provides us with rain and the sun.”

The Pope recently talked about disarmament, minds and land. Where can you start?

Getting spaces – physical, virtual to Dialogue and discussion Open about the reality that challenges us -the local and the global; Encouraging the spaces in which no one should have to act against their conscience and can contribute to their talents for the sake of collective interest; In recognition that there are other beliefs and cultures that deserve to be known and valuable, and in this sense, the horizon between cultures to defend life, wire cultures, others / change; Caring for those expressions that you resist through the environmental spirit in a strange way to a model that only determines the lands by the critical minerals that they can extract, regardless of the present and future of those who inhabit them; Ending colonialism is our minds and hearts, from our faith that provides a good deity, a true god who sees the persecution and honor of his people. When referring to the winner Activa We intend to move to sympathetic collective action, and convert this complex reality.

How do you move from theory and studies on peace andaphors to tangible work in armed conflicts?

It enhances the active dog Cultural conversion This means that reviewing those procedures that harm the human and the planet, and when they realize this, begin to repair -in a personal, cultural, cultural, and structural way, and the damage to it. This means recognizing the dignity of the opponent -which is not the enemy. On the individual level, FeelImagine, experience, risks, living spirituality with transformative power; Indeed, the collective level, click on civil society and social movements organized by continuous changes, which exercises influence on those who make decisions; An active sexual practice means a distinction between corruption and honesty about the public good, and it feeds on what we hope in a better world. The original peoples of the Andes translated this ancestral wisdom in the concept of “good life” (Life ZumakFor us, this will be the care of the joint home, Pashamama and those who inhabit it. Therefore, we need to discuss ourselves to rebuild ourselves as a civilization.