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Abstract
Objetives. It reflects that violence in the Amazon schools involves political, social, economic and cultural determinants, but this is a part of the crisis of values, and work in a perspective of nonviolence results in changes in behavior and values.
Methodology. A philosophy of the culture of peace, in order to rebuild relationships with others, with himself and with the world. To express this, interventions in the classroom is a daily exercise, made possible through workshops, short courses and a dynamic of promotion/reflection of the attitudes that involve social subjects in school, in this case, through the formation of educators/teachers.
Main Results. To engage in a participatory and inclusive dimension, changing troubled and violent relationships, and behaviors, based on the dialogue, the recovery of the person due to the quality of education of Emmanuel Mounier and his proposal of transformation, by which the primary mission of the social work and education is “to wake people up”.
Conclusions. To confront violence requires the sum of alternatives, including the Pilgrims of Peace Project, social work focused on values education as a means of empowerment and recovery of citizenship of adolescents and youth. This sentiment is expressed in the words of a teacher: “You have to look at the student as a whole to understand its social, economic and family situation, and discuss with him, call for dialogue, not having an attitude of pity, but work on their autonomy and confidence, to look beyond the violence expressed in the classroom. Through this I have seen the change in students whom I thought they were already lost and condemned to crime. “
