Book review: International repertory of institutions for peace and conflict research

1974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frences A. Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Conflict Research

How far is it from Königsberg to Kandahar? Democratic peace and democratic violence in International Relations

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 1555-1577 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNA GEIS ◽  
WOLFGANG WAGNER
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Democratic Peace ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Peace And Conflict Studies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
Conflict Research

AbstractOver the last two decades, there has been a ‘democratic turn’ in peace and conflict research, that is, the peculiar impact of democratic politics on a wide range of security issues has attracted more and more attention. Many of these studies are inspired by Immanuel Kant's famous essay on ‘Perpetual Peace’. In this article, we present a critical discussion of the ‘democratic distinctiveness programme’ that emerged from the Democratic Peace debate and soon spread to cover a wider range of foreign policy issues. The bulk of this research has to date been based on an overly optimistic reading of a ‘Kantian peace’. In particular, the manifold forms of violence that democracies have exerted, have been treated either as a challenge to the Democratic Peace proposition or as an undemocratic contaminant and pre-democratic relict. In contrast, we argue that forms of ‘democratic violence’ should no longer be kept at arm's length from the democratic distinctiveness programme but instead should be elevated to a main field of study. While we acknowledge the benefits of this expanding research programme, we also address a number of normative pitfalls implied in this scholarship such as lending legitimacy to highly questionable foreign policy practices by Western democracies. We conclude with suggestions for a more self-reflexive and ‘critical’ research agenda of a ‘democratically turned’ peace and conflict studies, inspired by the Frankfurt school tradition.

scholarly journals Data and progress in peace and conflict research

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch ◽  
Nils W Metternich ◽  
Andrea Ruggeri
Keyword(s):  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Conflict Research

Gandhis politische Ethik

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Galtung ◽  
Arne Næss
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Conscientious Objector ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
German Edition ◽  
Conflict Research ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
Arne Næss ◽  
Arne Naess

Show your opponent trust! Do not take advantage of your opponent’s weaknesses! How does that work, you may well ask? Indeed, these are but two of 25 carefully selected guiding principles that the two Norwegian authors Johan Galtung and Arne Næss gleaned from Gandhi’s writings in 1955. They account for the successes Gandhi had in South Africa and India and inspired Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and, for example, Andreas Buro, who kept a brief synopsis of the Satyagraha Norms in his jacket pocket during all of his peace missions. Galtung, the founder of Peace and Conflict Research, wrote his first eminent work in prison as a conscientious objector in collaboration with the great philosopher Næss, who was 18 years his senior. This book had three print runs in Norway but was never translated and so has met with no response from German researchers on non-violence up to now. This first German edition focuses on the key chapters of the original work from 1955, while also offering an overview of it in its entirety. With contributions by Johan Galtung and Arne Naess, with an introduction and footnotes by Reiner Steinweg

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