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The aim of this article is to meditate about the role that the mass media have and have had building the culture of peace and symbolic violence and/or culture from the perspective of peace studies. We highlight the concepts of culture of peace, violence, cultural and symbolic violence from a dialectical perspective. We look for a reflection that make the reader understand about building a culture of peace in a historical context framed by violence worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Attending to the inivitation for participating into the First International Seminary on Conflict Resolution and Peace Construction, we decided to inquire and write on "The mission of philosophical speech about Peace Construction, because we think that is more important to talk about social phenomenon of peace than about social phenomenon of violence, in spite of the tendency of investigating is to study violent facts. In our case, we have preferred to choose for examination and support the proposal of Alfono Fernández Herrería and Mary del Carmen López López on System-Complex Epistemology to built peace. At the same time we follow the Antropic Philosophy of Tomaso Bugossi in order to describe next points: an integral concept of human being like subject-person, distinction among Philosophy and philosophies, mission of a philosophical speech and construction of peace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]