Peru, the Price for Peace
This work takes it as understood that pacification, beyond victory over armed insurgency and beyond the terrorist characterization, allows us to dwell on the multiple facets that feed a substantive conflict, with ancient roots and triggers that must be defused with less passion and rancor and with greater social and national vision. The price of peace is what we must pay as a society in terms of concessions, agreements, and generosity in order to fight against the social, cultural, political, and economic burdens that have proven to be harmful to harmonious coexistence. The divisive factors we have accepted and continue to accept in many cases silently make themselves present in our daily lives and exact their price in national pain and in the violence we endure. (Excerpt from the introduction).