The first book written by Alfonso Gumucio seeks to explain a series of experiences that were successful in promoting social change through participatory approaches, that is, not with models that promote development as an exercise of public welfare, but projects that had emerged from communities or had been appropriated by them, and that would have enabled them to strengthen the values of democracy, culture and peace.
El primer libro escrito por Alfonso Gumucio pretende dar cuenta de una serie de experiencias que resultaron exitosas para promover el cambio social con enfoques participativos, es decir, no con modelos que promueven el desarrollo como un ejercicio de beneficencia pública, sino proyectos que hubiesen emergido de las comunidades o hubieran sido apropiados por ellas, y que hubieran permitido fortalecer en las mismas los valores de la democracia, la cultura, la paz.