Quality Features-Based Model of Interactions of Engineers and Meaningful Social Agents for Contributing to the Construction of Social Peace

Abstract

The education of engineers as constructors of peace considers the introduction of peace-oriented curricula, the understanding of social, human, economic, environmental and cultural factors that determine peace; as well as, the characteristics of meaningful agents who must interact to attain and conserve peace. World peace is a major human goal considering the challenge of overcoming human injustice, social inequity, states unsustainability; govern illegitimacy, uncontrolled resource waste, etc. Educates engineers for the construction and conservation of world peace constitutes a meaningful challenge. There are difficulties in the elaboration of curricula oriented to the solution of big and complex social problems, and in the construction and management of processes to accomplish collective solutions. This research proposes a method for contributing to the peace construction, involving the actions and interactions of social agents, including engineers. The implementation of agents' actions and interactions lay on quality features of a society living in peace. The context of agents' actions and interactions introduced in this paper orients the realization of goals for a peaceful society. These goals are formulated from a set of particular categories of quality characteristics that must be achieved in each of the general processes of a peaceful society. With the categories of quality features, a set of social interacting agents, and a set of processes realized by a peaceful society, recognized in this research, we formulate problems and goals in the direction to social peace. From these elements, we work on the construction of curricula for peace engineering. Our research shows that it is not enough to describe peace solutions; but rather the formulation and execution of processes for the achievement of the peace.

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