Alteridad, paz y escuela

Overview & Synopsis

Peace happens, it unexpectedly breaks into the extent that I care for the other, that I am responsible for those who are not like me; in other words, peace surprises me when I welcome the concern and the complete fragility of the other. I cannot be at peace with myself – I cannot be at inner peace – while the other, the neighbor, suffers – because inner peace is challenged by the exteriority that shakes the self from its domains and powers – because peace, in order to be possible in its ethical dimension, cannot be possible without a clear conscience (Mèlich, 2014). Not feeling liberated or freed from the other, but bound to him/her/them, a bond that liberates in and from responsibility, that which does not evade the call of the other.