strategy
Studying peace
Synonyms:
Assessing factors conducive to peaceConducting peace research
Researching peace
Description:
An interdisciplinary field of study both more specialized and broader than that of international relations. It is more specialized in the sense that it focuses on the nature of conflict and its resolution, but it is broader in that it draws on all scientific disciplines, in particular the social sciences, including history. Implementation:
Individual peace researchers define their task as one of accommodating social change in a non-violent way and to this end they seek to improve the present system or appropriately to transform it. The peace researcher is concerned with all forms of violence: open, behavioural violence and hidden, structural violence. The structural forms of violence are those institutionalized inequalities within and among nations which inhibit social justice, and are therefore conducive to behavioural violence. As these structural forms of social injustice exist both at the international and at the national level, so the peace researcher is led to examine social injustice wherever this is relevant to problems of international peace. Narrower:
Educating for peaceStudying zones of peaceResearching crimes against peaceDefining transition from war to peaceMonitoring violation of international peaceIdentifying territorial organization as an obstacle to peace Constrains:
Romanticizing peace Facilitated by:
Improving peace research supportPromoting contact among peace scholarsDeveloping international understanding Values:
Peace Organizations:
International Peace Research Association United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization European Peace Research Association Latin American Council for Peace Research Asia Pacific Peace Research Association Pan African Centre for Research on Peace and Conflict Resolution Africa Peace Research and Education Association Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution Fund for Peace Subjects:
Commerce → AssessmentResearch, Standards → Study
Research, Standards → Research
International Relations → Peace studies
Type Classification:
F: Exceptional strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
