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Barrio De Paz
In Barrio de Paz (Peace Town), we meet gang youth who band together not to commit crimes, but to provide services to their struggling community. Nelsa Libertad Curbelo Cora initiated this non-violent youth movement in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and in this film explains how she helps youth channel their need for unity, structure, and love into the power to participate in society.
Nelsa Libertad Curbelo Cora is a proponent of
non-violence who has fought for indigenous people's rights and worked
as a mediator in armed conflicts throughout South America. In 1999, she
founded the organization Ser Paz (Being Peace) specifically to work
with youth gangs in Ecuador's southern city of Guayaquil. Through her
work, many of Guayaquil's most dangerous gangs have disarmed, agreed to
abandon violence and are now working together to rebuild the community.
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