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This issue of the journal, entitled Countercurrents for Buen Vivir: Exploring the Pluriverse of Engineering, dives into the civilizational crisis we face today. It highlights how conventional engineering, focused on efficiency, has exacerbated social inequalities and damaged the planet's natural cycles. In this sense, a profound critique is made of an engineering model that, arising in war contexts and at the service of capitalist interests, disregards the cosmovisions of the South and promotes a reductionist and linear vision of knowledge. This approach has led to a disconnection with local realities and a disdain for sustainable practices.

Faced with this problem, this issue advocates the development of new engineering that prioritizes peace, social justice and harmony with natural cycles. It invites reflection on alternative experiences that have flourished outside the confines of traditional academia. In addition, this edition of the International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice and Peace seeks to make visible these practices oriented towards Buen Vivir. It opens a space for diverse contributions that explore this pluriverse of engineering, fostering an enriching dialogue that challenges conventional notions and promotes a different future.

Editorial Committee

Alexei Ochoa-Duarte, reeducational pedagogue of engineering with social sense, who has explored theater, music, radio and student publications as ways to communicate his ideas. Mechatronic Engineer, Master in Systems and Computer Engineering and PhD in Engineering - Industry and Organizations. Member of the Research Group on Technologies and Innovation for Community Development (GITIDC in spanish). He has approached rural and urban communities on issues such as agroecology, free technologies, popular education; in order to contribute to the transformation of society. Universidad Naiconal de Colombia, Colombia.

Julián Gálvez Gómez, enthusiast of life, its complexity and richness. Agricultural engineer interested in agroecologies, Latin American environmental thought, critical engineering and its modes of articulation in the Colombian rurality. In my spare time I study biosystems engineering. Universidad Naiconal de Colombia, Colombia.

Leonardo León. School teacher. Enthusiast of reading, politics and socialism. Doctor in human sciences, master in industrial engineering and electronic engineer from the National University of Colombia. Member of the Research Group on Technologies and Innovation for Community Development (GITIDC in spanish). Main research topic: humanitarian engineering.

María Elisa Palacios Possu. Sanitary and environmental engineer, Technologist in Ecology and Environmental Management from Universidad del Valle, professional master's degree in technology for social development in engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, NODINSA S.A. S, experience working with communities in social technologies, low-cost wastewater treatment systems, humanitarian action and community participation, professional in social innovation in the project Center for Innovation in Water, Territory and Peace Management- ATP of Universidad Nacional de Colombia, part of the Spanish and Portuguese editorial team of the International Journal Engineering, Social Justice and Peace.

Juan Sebastián Rincón Bucheli. Sanitary and environmental engineer from Universidad del Valle. He has knowledge in the different branches of basic science, design and implementation of sanitary technologies, as well as research experience in human health risks due to mercury consumption. Additionally, he is a member of the Colombian Network of Engineering and Social Development (ReCIDS in spanish), where he has carried out strategies of community participation and co-creation in projects of Engaged Engineering, environmental health, mining formalization and just energy transition.