TY - GEN
T1 - Recognizing Overarching Themes and Actors in Peacebuilding
T2 - 7th IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications of Computational Intelligence, ColCACI 2024
AU - Batz, Aglaya
AU - Grueso-Hinestroza, Merlin P.
AU - Serrano-Cardenas, Lizeth F.
AU - D’croz-Baron, David F.
AU - Ojeda-Sanchez, Carlos A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Despite extensive efforts by academia and affiliated organizations to broaden the conceptual understanding of peacebuilding, practical approaches in various contexts continue to diverge. These divergences are often influenced by cultural, temporal, and geographic factors. This paper seeks to address the following research question: What cross-cutting themes can be identified in peacebuilding across diverse contexts? To investigate this, a comprehensive statistical topic modeling approach was applied to news articles published in leading newspapers from Colombia, Mexico, Chile, and Peru between 2010 and 2020. The results identified six key thematic areas within the peacebuilding discourse: (1) the regional significance of the peace processes in Colombia; (2) the Catholic Church's role in promoting peacebuilding; (3) the influence of ongoing global wars and conflicts; (4) emphasis on domestic conflicts, both past and present; (5) the private sector's involvement in peacebuilding; and (6) initiatives related to the Culture of Peace and peace education.
AB - Despite extensive efforts by academia and affiliated organizations to broaden the conceptual understanding of peacebuilding, practical approaches in various contexts continue to diverge. These divergences are often influenced by cultural, temporal, and geographic factors. This paper seeks to address the following research question: What cross-cutting themes can be identified in peacebuilding across diverse contexts? To investigate this, a comprehensive statistical topic modeling approach was applied to news articles published in leading newspapers from Colombia, Mexico, Chile, and Peru between 2010 and 2020. The results identified six key thematic areas within the peacebuilding discourse: (1) the regional significance of the peace processes in Colombia; (2) the Catholic Church's role in promoting peacebuilding; (3) the influence of ongoing global wars and conflicts; (4) emphasis on domestic conflicts, both past and present; (5) the private sector's involvement in peacebuilding; and (6) initiatives related to the Culture of Peace and peace education.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105004789362
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-88854-0_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-88854-0_7
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105004789362
SN - 9783031888533
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 89
EP - 107
BT - Applications of Computational Intelligence - 7th IEEE Colombian Conference, ColCACI 2024, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Orjuela-Cañón, Alvaro David
A2 - Lopez, Jesus A.
A2 - Suarez, Oscar J.
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 17 July 2024 through 19 July 2024
ER -