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Prejudices against the unemployed pose an enormous threat to their self-confidence and can make it difficult for them to re-enter the labour market, resulting in further long-term unemployment. Given these high costs for the unemployed and for society as a whole, our knowledge of prejudices against the unemployed is surprisingly scarce. We focus on the question of what determines the strength of prejudice among employees. By applying social identity theory, we assume that people who are disadvantaged in the labour market in general, also hold stronger prejudices. In addition, we assume that social status mediates this association and that self-efficacy moderates it.

Policy instruments such as the National Policy for Reducing Substance Use (Ministerio de Protección Social, 2007) and the National Law on School Coexistence (CRC, 2013) follow a preventive approach to address the problem of alcoholism. However, neither national public bodies nor schools often have access to information on prevention programs based on scientific evidence. In this article, the international literature on alcohol abuse prevention programs in the school setting is reviewed. It was found that the most robust programs are characterized by (1) differentiating between abuse and use, (2) addressing the problem of addiction to different psychoactive substances, (3) relating alcohol to overall social-emotional problems.

Previous research has shown how peace education (PE) mutates according to socio-political and curricular/didactic traditions, but we still need to know how PE disseminates at the school level. We surveyed teachers from 12 rural schools of the violent Amazon region of Colombia where a national Law made PE mandatory in schools and universities. Teachers working on schools affected by the armed conflict have high expectations about PE. Teachers also have opposing views about the history of PE. We could not find a systematic pattern of responses about the pedagogical principles or theoretical sources of inspiration of PE. We discuss the differences between present PE reforms and the previous tradition related to classical Education.