Paper read by the author in the Maes-Heller Auditorium of Universidad del Pacífico in March 25th of the present year, on the occasion of Jorge Basadre´s book presentation.

​This article reviews the legal dispositions that regulates the activity of the mass media in Peru. It also analyses how the mass media can help to combat violence, and how the mass media can auto-regulate its policies concerning the covering of violence. The author argues in favor of an Association-Academy responsible for the supervision of these policies.

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The article focuses on the work of the United Nations in the light of what its Charter states in relation to international security and peace, and development. On the first point, the author mentions issues like military-backed political security, economic and social security, the abolition of the colonics, and human rights. The author goes on to track the progress of development, the UN's steps to promote it and its new perception, the components of which are intellectual understanding, moral commitment and effective political measures.

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The article maintains that all human beings possess a vision of mankind based on a vast number of personal experiences. However, in spite of the fact that this infinite number of experiences can result in a parallel number of views, all these individual outlooks on mankind share a common nucleus, one that gives rise to the universal declarations on human rights.