LA CUESTIÓN DE LA PAZ EN EL NUEVO DISCURSO GLOBALIZADO SOBRE LA POBREZA
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Universidad Industrial de Santander
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RESUMEN Se somete a discusión si el discurso sobre la pobreza, compartido hoy dia por las organizaciones mundiales más dominantes -Fondo Monetario Internacional, Banco Mundial, Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, Organización de Cooperación y Desarrollo Económico-, contribuye a aclarar la cuestión de la paz o si, más bien, contribuye a oscurecerla. Al efecto se propone una revisión de la manera de concebir la relación entre la cuestión de la paz (o de la guerra) y la cuestión de la pobreza. Esta revisión establece el contraste entre una relación paz pobreza oriunda de los textos griegos clásicos y una relación paz-pobreza propia de la modernidad ligada al principio de la justicia social. El sentido del nuevo discurso sobre la pobreza aparece en correspondencia con la crisis del principio de justicia social y con la mutación que desde la década de los noventa sufre la justificación del capitalismo.
ABSTRACT It is argued that the discourse on poverty preached by world organizations -such as the IMP, World Bank, United Nations Development Program, OCED- far from contributing to clarify the issue of peace in our time, could be helping, instead, to its opposite. Accordingly, the conceptualization of the relationship between peace (or war) and poverty is reviewed in this paper. Two contrasting conceptions of this relationship are presented. One of them has roots in ancient Greek thought. The other one comes from modernity and is related to modernity's key principle of social justice. Based on their contrast, it is argued that the aforementioned discourse on poverty is related both to the crisis of modernity and its principle of social justice as well as to the changing rationale of capitalism in our time.
ABSTRACT It is argued that the discourse on poverty preached by world organizations -such as the IMP, World Bank, United Nations Development Program, OCED- far from contributing to clarify the issue of peace in our time, could be helping, instead, to its opposite. Accordingly, the conceptualization of the relationship between peace (or war) and poverty is reviewed in this paper. Two contrasting conceptions of this relationship are presented. One of them has roots in ancient Greek thought. The other one comes from modernity and is related to modernity's key principle of social justice. Based on their contrast, it is argued that the aforementioned discourse on poverty is related both to the crisis of modernity and its principle of social justice as well as to the changing rationale of capitalism in our time.