Negative peace

Negative peace is a concept by the Norwegian peace researcher Johan Galtung , which he developed around 1971. What is meant by this is a peace that exists through the absence of direct personal violence, especially the absence of organized use of military force.

The goals of negative peace are, on the one hand, to end violent conflict, ceasefire / rest, peace treaties and permanent security for the population. The realization of negative peace, as a conditio sine qua non, is an essential prerequisite for positive peace , which is defined by the extensive reduction of structural violence .

literature

Johan Galtung: Peace by peaceful means . Leske + Budrich , Opladen 1998, p. 17th f .

Web links

Peace on the website of the Federal Agency for Civic Education

Individual evidence

^ Lecture Introduction to Peace and Conflict Research by Thorsten Bonacker , University of Marburg , PDF file, p. 19.
^ Arno Waschkuhn : Violence as a subject of political science. In: Michael Klein (Ed.) Violence - interdisciplinary . LIT Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6272-0 , p. 113.

[1] Lecture Introduction to Peace and Conflict Research by Thorsten Bonacker , University of Marburg , PDF file, p. 19.

[2] Arno Waschkuhn : Violence as a subject of political science. In: Michael Klein (Ed.) Violence - interdisciplinary . LIT Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6272-0 , p. 113.