Peace research

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Peace research describes that part of conflict research that researches the basis for lasting peace between states , peoples and people . Usually different interests are weighed up against each other and political decisions for peace and human rights are called for.

The peace studies is, however, not be considered as an independent science. She is z. B. operated by historians, sociologists, political scientists and economists.

Beginnings of Peace Research

The first institute in Europe to specialize in peace research was the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) founded in 1959 by Johan Galtung . Subsequently, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) was established as a foundation by the Swedish government in 1966 . A little earlier, but on a smaller scale, the Research Society for Peace Studies, founded on the initiative of Christel Küpper , began in Munich in 1958, specializing in peace education from the 1960s .

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The tendencies

It is not uncommon for this science to be located in the context of political movements . Examples include a. the peace movement , anti-militarism , conscientious objectors, conscientious objectors and deserters. However, there are also clear tendencies on the part of the state to influence the discourse of research; for example in the Federal Republic of Germany through the journal Articles on Conflict Research and through the German Foundation for Peace Research . In contrast to this government-related peace research, representatives of peace research related to the peace movement refer to their research as critical peace research (e.g. Ekkehart Krippendorff ).

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Given the global threat from weapons of mass destruction and recently also from terrorism , peace research regards itself as an important component in averting humanitarian catastrophes and in finding lasting solutions to conflicts.

Transrational Peace

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Since the turn of the millennium, the UNESCO Chair for Peace Research at the University of Innsbruck, headed by Wolfgang Dietrich , has introduced a new line of thought under the title “trans-rational peace” . This systemically oriented school examines the five “families” of peace: the energetic view, the moral, the modern, the post-modern and the transrational. The latter is understood as the connection between the “mechanistic rationality” of modern concepts of peace and the “systemic relationality of energetic ways of thinking”. On this basis, the Innsbruck School chooses the elicit approach of the American peace researcher John Paul Lederach in conflict work, who derives the conflict resolution from the relationship between the parties to the dispute. Peace work does not consist in studying external reports, but in the personal challenge in which the parties to the dispute discover new ways of communicating and acting for themselves. Accordingly, the Innsbruck School has designed a master’s course for Transrational Peace Research and Elicitive Conflict Transformation.

Peace research institutes

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Austria

Switzerland

Associations of peace researchers and foundations for peace research

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ prio.no About PRIO , on prio.no
  2. ↑ Dieter Sandner: What is peace education? Critical introduction to the current state of research - suggestions for further development . In: Problems of Peace. Info. Education for Peace. 3-6 / 1973, pp. 1-14.
  3. ^ Martin Jung: States, governments, and peace research. In: Nigel Young (Ed.): The Oxford international encyclopedia of peace , 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-533468-5 .
  4. ↑ Werner Ruf : Quo vadis peace research? In: Marcel M. Baumann (Hrsg.): Friedensforschung und Friedenspraxis. (Festschrift for Reiner Steinweg ), 2009, ISBN 978-3-86099-383-5 .
  5. ↑ berghof foundation
  6. ↑ ifp Tübingen