Epistemology of peacebuilding and nonviolence: a social research at UNAM on assemblies and strikes.

Abstract

We describe and analyze, from a perspective of the epistemology of peace and nonviolent civil resistance, a process of social research carried out by students and professors of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM (FFyL), in Mexico City, which was applied to the student community, between August 2022 and September 2023, about what the student community thought regarding the traditional forms of student representation and struggle that operated (assemblies and strikes for the fulfillment of petitions), and what suggestions they offered to energize and advance demands and student organization. The objective was to offer conceptual and operational axes of how in the academy it is possible to collectively build nonviolent research and knowledge devices, which can be developed for the training of young social activists that also allow exercising legitimate and scientific forms of pressure on the authorities. or power groups involved in internal conflicts, in the joint search for solutions.