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This article uses the assessment template suggested by de Rivera (2004/this issue) as a framework to assess the state of the culture of peace in Spain. After subjectively describing the current state of each of the aspects of the culture, it focuses on articulating the components of each aspect & identifying sources of indicators that could help in the objective assessment of the extent to which the culture exists. 8 Tables, 36 References. Adapted from the source document.

Discusses reasons for violence in the culture, the historical legacy for a culture of peace, and the role of religion in peace and nonviolence; India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

This text reports the proceedings of the UNIMED - SYMPOSIUM, which is one of the projects of EUROMED HERITAGE PROGRAMME. This project is financed by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union. ; Today we can't understand culture in the same manner as anthropologists did in the last century: something static, immutable, a supra-subjective entity. We should see it as something always variant, which is continuely adapting to new circumstances. That is, culture as a continuous negotiation, as something which isn't given by nature but built every day by persons. This fact has two implications ofinterest regarding ourwished culture of peace: 1. The need of abandoning an idea of culture bounded too much to the ethnicist ideologies and which has been a further cause for struggle and intransigent attitudes. 2. The need of recognizing the high versatility of culture. Evidently, it is not too easy to change culture. We can't change cultural traits in the way we can change our shirt or necktie; but we also need don't to carry the burden of cultural traits which are clearly negative for current society. Since culture was not given by nature, we can also try to modify very consciously the cultural e1ements which are causes of struggle. ; Peer reviewed