Peace process

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The term peace process has only emerged since the term “positive peace” used by Johan Galtung . Because meanwhile one no longer speaks of the term “ peace ” as a state, but more of a process. This is related to the fact that the definition of positive peace presupposes an absence of structural, direct and personal violence . Since this absence is difficult to implement, the positive concept of peace is set as the utopian goal of a process.

If one starts from the traditional "negative peace", one understands by this only the absence of war, which is no longer sufficient today as a definition of the current global, interdependent relationships. Ultimately, this explains society's striving for the absence of structural, personal, and direct violence. The term is used particularly frequently to denote the peace efforts in the Middle East .