出版社：Faculdade de Educação, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
摘要：The present paper presents the results of research carried out in three Brazilian educa-tional organizations that have obtained recognition for their programs targeted at adolescents and with the goal of violence prevention and/or promotion of a culture of peace. The analysis units adopted was the discourses of adolescents that participated in those three programs, obtained through five focus groups. Twelve programmatic emphasis were common in the studied organizations. The trajectory of each of the programs’ participants is described, from their arrival at the educational organization and throughout their learning and re-signification that mark their experience. The article proposes the recognition of a new social role that adolescents can assume regarding the phenomenon of violence, one of peace promoter. Data analysis was based on the theoretical and methodological perspective of the Significations Network
关键词：Culture of peace; prevention of violence; educational context; the adolescent agent.
