HUMANITIES AND RIGHTS GLOBAL NETWORK JOURNAL

RETHINKING PEACE. NON-VIOLENT INTERVENTION STRATEGIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Agata Amato Mangiameli — 2025-07-22

Today’s dramatic events, particularly the various war fronts, require us to revisit some themes that the legal-philosophical perspective has explored in depth over time. In this context, peace and human rights raise the issue of new definitions of international relations.

THE SCHOOL OF SALAMANCA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE RIGHT TO PEACE

Juan Sainz Borgo — 2025-07-22

This article explores how the School of Salamanca’s principles on justice, sovereignty, and international law influenced the formation of Latin American legal traditions and diplomatic efforts, including the Congress of Panama (1826), initiated by Simón Bolívar. The discussion highlights how the legacy of Salamanca and Vitoria contributed to the right to peace, shaping treaties such as the 1820 Treaty of Regularization of War and promoting Latin America’s participation in global diplomatic initiatives like the Berlin Conference (1884-1885) and the Versailles Conference (1919). By tracing the intellectual transition from Salamanca to the legal thought of independence, the article examines the evolution of Latin America’s engagement with international law, demonstrating how these principles were reinterpreted to justify self-determination, sovereignty, and regional diplomacy. The rupture with the Salamanca School was not absolute; rather, Latin American jurists adapted its core legal and ethical principles into a pragmatic legal system, integrating new secular and liberal influences.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO BUILD STABILITY AND PEACE THROUGH TOURISM?

Francisco Rojas Aravena — 2025-07-22

Tourism encompasses ways of life, new learning experiences, and novel perspectives on the world and others. The cultural and social tools provided by tourism are significant, personal, and irreplaceable. Understanding the needs of other cultures and learning about diverse traditions fosters in individuals a renewed vision of life—how it functions and the best ways to engage with people and the world. Tourism has the ability to create more accurate perceptions, allowing people to appreciate the environment, biodiversity, folklore, and traditions in a more meaningful and symbolic way. Through tourism, countries can progress and generate greater economic growth, leading to improved social conditions. However, challenges may arise from tourism dependency. Unemployment, gentrification, poverty, inequality, environmental damage, and water resource depletion are some concerns linked to mass tourism and over-reliance on the industry. Despite its benefits, tourism’s consequences can create significant issues. Therefore, strategies must be developed to integrate conscious and responsible tourism globally. Nevertheless, tourism fosters stability, which is essential for peace.

CULTURE OF PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION AS A RESPONSE TO A WORLD IN CONFLICT

Celma Tavares — 2025-07-22

The international political situation is at a complex moment. The world is experiencing growing polarization between the major powers and is witnessing the formation of tensions and conflicts in different parts of the world. There is a global trend towards a return to the logic of war, with an increase in defence spending by states. In this context, it is essential to reflect on and act towards building a culture of peace and the defence of human rights. The aim of this text is therefore to reflect on the potential of human rights education in building a culture of peace, especially since this education combines knowledge, values, attitudes, and actions. This implies that educational practices should include the values and principles and content of human rights, as well as those related to the culture of peace. Therefore, the process of training the subject of rights combined with the defence of democracy and peace is the element that can contribute to transforming the current scenario, with the promotion of active citizenship that materializes in day-to-day social relations, pacifism, knowledge of rights and responsibilities and how to demand and apply them.

BREACH OF THE PEACE THROUGH DEVIATION? CRIMINOLOGY'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE RHETORICAL JUSTIFICATION OF CRIMINAL OFFENSE

Claudio Brandao — 2025-07-22

The functionalists theories of deviance, based on integration and social equilibrium, are ultimately based on the peace that consensus brings. They advocate the existence of a social consensus around values that are antagonistic to deviance. These theories, created within the framework of a central actor of political and economic power in the world, the United States of America, when viewed through the lens of Latin American society, are confronted with a social peace that is evidently non-existent. The investigation into this confrontation is the subject of this research.

1922’S BRAZILIAN MODERNISM: AN ARTISTIC MOVEMENT THAT NEVER ENDED

Ana Scalquette — 2025-07-22

The Modern Art Week of 1922 was so important for Brazil’s cultural scenario that even today its pioneers and their actions are deeply studied, proving that an uprising of ideas can have effects that reverberate for centuries. The aim of this article, far from drawing exhaustive conclusions, is rather to provoke new thoughts about the movement based on artistical, political and legal aspects of it, all mixed together: the true face of Brazil.

RHETORICAL-DOGMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE FACT DOMAIN THEORY AND ITS APPLICATION BY THE BRAZILIAN SUPREME COURT IN CRIMINAL ACTION N. 470.

Pedro Parini — 2025-07-22

The present work aims to analyze the application of the fact domain theory by the Federal Supreme Court in the scope of the Criminal Action No. 470. The decisions coming from the Supreme Court have effects on the entire legal system, influencing other instances through the discursive parameters presented as decision-making reasons. The work begins by historicizing the fact domain theory, to understand its function in the legal system for which it was designed. The investigation verifies contemporary developments and the theoretical contours outlined by the scholars cited as the main reference in the Supreme Court's winning report. After analyzing the application of doctrinal parameters, the research uses analytical rhetoric to understand the process of presenting the production of law, in the form of a casestudy and bibliographic review. It was found that the Federal Supreme Court used foreign theory in a non-judicious way and resorted to rhetorical strategies to justify an apparently pre-defined result.