István Kende

István Kende (born March 13, 1917 in Maramarossziget (Hungary), † November 13, 1988 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian peace researcher .

Life

István Kende was born the son of a mine worker of Jewish origin. He was Professor of the History of International Political Relations at the Karl Marx University of Economics in Budapest. He became internationally known for his definition of the concept of war, which is widely recognized in peace research.

War features according to Kende

According to his reading, a war exhibits the following characteristics:

1. two or more armed forces with regular government forces (military, paramilitary groups, police units) on at least one side;
2. a minimum of centrally directed organization of the belligerents and the struggle, even if this means nothing more than organized armed defense or planned raids (guerrilla operations, partisan war, etc.);
3. armed operations with a certain continuity and not just as occasional, spontaneous clashes, i.e. H. both sides operate according to a planned strategy .

Works (selection)

• Wars after 1945: an empirical study , Frankfurt / Main: Haag and Herchen, 1982, ISBN 3-88129-585-2
• About the wars since 1945 , with a compilation of the wars from 1945 - 1982, Bonn-Bad Godesberg: Dt. Ges. Für Friedens- u. Conflict research, 1982, DGFK booklets; No. 16
• Local wars in Asia, Africa and Latin America, 1945-1969 , Budapest, Center for Afro-Asian Research, 1972
• Forro beke, hideghaboru. A diplomaciai kapcsolatok törtenete, 1945/1956 , Budapest: Kossuth Könyvkiado, 1970

Web links

• Literature by and about István Kende in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History in Science and Education , Volume 33, Association of German History Teachers, Verlag E. Klett, 1982, page 638
2. ↑ http://www.bpb.de/popup/popup_druckversion.html?guid=03K2KB