REGULATORY FRAMEWORK OF ANIMAL WELFARE IN LATIN AMERICA AND SPAIN: SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE DOGS CONTRIBUTION FOR BUILDING PEACE

Abstract

The protection of animal welfare is a universal concern today. However, its guarantee remains a gap that has not yet been covered by international law. From the environmental dimension of the transformative peace model, the development of Good Living is essential to understand our social relations and our interactions with other living beings. Therefore, we will try to understand what role animals and, in particular, dogs play in the culture of peace. We will see how their work can be of great importance in areas of public action essential in any model of society, such as health, health or emergencies. Later, we will highlight some Latin American experiences that illustrate this change in the conception of animal welfare and its contribution to today's societies. These experiences call for optimism and that can be drivers of social change towards convivial models that have a common benefit for animals and humans, in the interactions that can be generated between them. We will conclude by presenting some conclusions and general reflections that encourage future researchers to work on the same subject. There is a long way to go, but we have already begun to walk.