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Peace by Peaceful Means: Peace and Conflict, Development and Civilization
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Titel: | Peace by Peaceful Means: Peace and Conflict, Development and Civilization |
Ausgabe: | Online-Ausg. |
veröffentlicht: |
London:
SAGE Publications,
1996
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Umfang: | Online-Ressource (1 online resource (289 p.)) |
Teil von: | International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) ; v.14 |
Teil von: | EBL-Schweitzer |
ISBN: |
9780857022813 |
Zusammenfassung: |
Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction: Visions of Peace for the 21st Century; Part I: Peace Theory; 1 - Peace Studies: An Epistemological Basis; 2 - Peace Studies: Some Basic Paradigms; 3 - Woman : Man = Peace : Violence?; 4 - Democracy : Dictatorship = Peace : War?; 5 - The State System: Dissociative, Associative, Confederal, Federal, Unitary - or a Lost Case?; Part II: Conflict Theory; 1 - Conflict Formations; 2 - Conflict Life-Cycles; 3 - Conflict Transformations; 4 - Conflict Interventions; 5 - Nonviolent Conflict Transformation; Part III: Development Theory 1 - Fifteen Theses on Development Theory and Practice2 - Six Economic Schools; 3 - The Externalities; 4 - Ten Theses on Eclectic Development Theory; 5 - Development Theory: An Approach Across Spaces; Part IV: Civilization Theory; 1 - Cultural Violence; 2 - Six Cosmologies: An Impressionistic Presentation; 3 - Implications: Peace, War, Conflict, Development; 4 - Specifications: Hitlerism, Stalinism, Reaganism; 5 - Explorations: Are There Therapies for Pathological Cosmologies?; Conclusion: Peace and Conflict, Development and Civilization; Index Johan Galtung, one of the founders of modern peace studies, provides a wide-ranging panorama of the ideas, theories and assumptions on which the study of peace is based. The book is organized in four parts, each examining the one of the four major theoretical approaches to peace. The first part covers peace theory, exploring the epistemological assumptions of peace. In Part Two conflict theory is examined with an exploration of nonviolent and creative handling of conflict. Developmental theory is discussed in Part Three, exploring structural violence, particularly in the economic field, together with a consideration of the ways of overcoming that violence. The fourth part is devoted to civilization theory. This involves an |
Format: | E-Book Electronic books |
Quelle: | Verbunddaten SWB |
Anmerkungen: | Description based upon print version of record |
Sprache: | Englisch |