La privatización de los baldíos nacionales en Costa Rica durante el siglo XIX: Legislación y procedimientos utilizados para su adjudicación

ResumenAnaliza los mecanismos creados a partir de la legislación vigente para la apropiación privada de los baldíos nacionales, entre 1821 y 1900. Enfatiza los criterios utilizados para legitimar la propiedad privada y el fomento agrícola, como eje del desarrollo económico nacional. Detecta manifestaciones del pensamiento liberal clásico y positivista desde principios del siglo XIX.AbstractIncludes a discussion of legal means of acquiring private ownership of government lands, from 1821 to 1900. Study stresses criteria used to legitimate property and promote agriculture as the key to national economic development. Identifies manifestations of classical and positivist liberalism since the early 19

Participación comunitaria y legislación en El Salvador. Análisis de la legislación identificada

Community participation has been considered strategic in order to achieve effectiveness in political, economical, social, educational and cultural change processes as a mean of guarantying effectiveness, quality and sustainability in social policy. Accordingly, this participation must be stimulated and promoted through national legislation since it has traditionally and historically been imposed and undemocratic. Education, as an essentially human act, is a first order instrument that societies must take advantage of in order to develop and stimulate democratic participation. Therefore, education may represent a new culture: one of democratic participation as a fundamental way to empower and develop a Peace culture.