Technolodemocracy: An alternative to capitalism and socialism by Mario Bunge (McGill University)
Socialism is not dead and capitalism is not triunphant. What was called "real socialism" involved dictatorship and nationalization. Capitalism is subject to market desequilibria and prospers trough exploitation. We need a third way in order to implement welfare, social justice, an integral democracy, peace, and a sustainable economy. It is holotechnodemocracy.

Power: Between Democracy and Domination by Zenon de Paz (Universidad Nacional de San Marcos)
To some people power is synonym of force, authoritarism or domi- nation (Plato of Republic, the Epicureans, Fathers of the Church, Machiavello, Hobbes, Lenin, etc.) of a minority to respect of the mayorities. To others power would emerge from the social contract (Plato of The Laws, Aristotle, Sophocles, etc.) Only the demo- cratic organization of the mayorities can warraty a structural peace.

The Psychopathic Society by Gustavo Flores (Instituto por la Paz, la Cultura y la Integración de América Latina)
The modern society is affected for a moral psicopathy. The under- developing societies -attacked by misery, war, individualism without control, etc.- suffered psicosocial anormalities. The Peruvian basic personality is authoritarian-submissive and potencially fascist, where the typoloy of dreamers, inconstants, indolents and weaks is substitutted for that of practicals, improviseds, makers and intelectuals. To the repression of liber- ty follows the perversion of liberty.

Poverty and the idea of developing by Maria Rivara (Universidad Nacional de San Marcos)
They wanted to eliminate poverty with the concept of developing. But it won only an inmense debt with the international bank that was not applied in a good manner to our sociocultural and econo- mic reality. It is need to basis our developing in our own histo- ry, in our Andean communities that work collectively and many of them migratted in the periphery of towns.

Freedom of Conscience, Pluralism and Tolerance by Rob Tielman (International Humanist & Ethical Union)
Secular humanism is the alternative to religion. It involvs both atheism and agnosticism. As a product of the two World Wars emerged as an international movement. Humanism is not united specifically to any political ideology but support developing based in the creativ use of science, self-determination, pluralist education, the separation of state and church, tolerance, freedom of conscience, a democratic and open mentality.

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