Peace building and citizenship. Between indifference and memory

Abstract

This article highlights the role of memory in civic education and in peace building, emphasizes its formative character. Its objective is to demonstrate that indifference, as a result of lack of memory, is a form of violence; feasible due to historical, cultural, symbolic and material conditions shaping an indifferent subjectivity. Thus, in the first place an approach is made to the concepts of violence and conflict to argue why the indifference is a specific type of violence. In a second instance, it is argued how memory builds virtues such as responsibility and tolerance, called to be the basis for citizenship education for peace. Finally, the link between memory and justice is established, to argue that there is no peace without justice.