Bringing peace back in: Presidential address to the Peace Science Society, 2013

Regan, Patrick M.

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“…This constitutes a magnificent challenge. Indeed, the concept of 'peace' goes well beyond the absence of war and should "incorporate the conditions under which states have little need or incentive to use violence against their citizens, and conversely citizens have little motivation or incentive to challenge the state by force of arms" (Regan, 2014).…”

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Killing Social Leaders for Territorial Control: The Unintended Consequences of Peace

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“…However, some kind of order is always in place. Even international politics, which might be the most unsettled of all social orders (Seth 2013, 28), is not without ‘constitutional structure’ (Reus-Smit 1997); there is always some background in place that ‘define both the rules of the game and what the pieces are’ (Buzan 2014, 31) (The reader should note that our use of the term ‘order’ is not equivalent to ‘stability’, which is a property any given order might or might not enjoy).…”

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The challenge of human rights for peace research

Hvidsten

Skarstad

2017

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Human rights law posits a close, almost self-evident, relation between human rights and peace. Peace researchers, however, see this relation as an unsettled empirical question. In this essay, we consider the peace researchers’ (implicit) critique of human rights law. We argue that seeing the relation between human rights and peace as an empirical question rests on a largely unexamined conceptual separation of justice and peace. Re-investigating this conceptual relation reveals two positions that have different implications for human rights and peace: (1) a ‘negative’ understanding of peace as stability, and (2) a ‘positive’ understanding of peace as a working social contract. On the negative understanding, human rights may or may not be instrumentally effective in maintaining stability, which is rightly seen as an empirical question. On the positive understanding of peace, on the other hand, human rights are potentiallyconceptuallyrelated to peace, and the relation cannot be reduced to an empirical question. We argue that (2) is a better understanding of peace – at least the kind of peace envisioned in human rights philosophy – and provides a potential bridge between human rights scholarship and peace research.

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“…That is, most studies are positive analysis of conflict and conflict dynamics but they do not provide either further positive analysis of peacebuilding processes or normative analysis for conflict resolution. This oxymoron in current research on conflict and peace has been highlighted at the Presidential Address of Patrick Regan (2014) in the 2013 Peace Science Society Annual Meeting. Crucially, most researchers study peace, namely as the absence of war and armed conflict.…”

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“…Yet, in reality we do not know if the same factors that contribute to ending of armed conflict can also lead to stable peace. Regan (2014) stressed that as a research community we need to develop both theoretical models and adequate measurements of peace in order to develop new ways of thinking and understanding peace. Rediscovering a normative character for peace science, therefore, ought to be a guideline for future research in the field.…”

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Introduction to the Proceedings of the 14th Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference

Caruso

Gizelis

2014

Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy

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This special issue collects selected proceedings of the 14th Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference, 1 annual meeting of the Network of European Peace Scientists (NEPS). The issue covers a wide range of topics related to peace, conflict and development and it is a showcase of the diverse strands of research and the multifaceted interests, both theoretically and methodologically, in conflict and peace science literature. The 14 articles included in this special issue reflect the great diversity and richness in the field. In particular, the selected papers appear to answer the following question: what do we know about the processes of peace and conflict and how they are related to development? In this line we can identify four key research themes. The first three topics primarily focus on civil wars and violence caused by non-state actors, while the fourth research area concentrates on state interactions and the military spending of states.The first of the research themes includes conflict dynamics and spill over effects in neighboring countries and regions. The letters included in this issue under the first theme refine existing research on conflict processes, challenge existing concepts of violence, examine the movement of populations in conflict 1 The proceedings have been refereed anonymously. Therefore, we thank the colleagues who have helped us to edit this issue. For selected proceedings of previous Tinbergen conferences see Bove and Ruggeri (2012) and Böhmelt and Sekeris (2013).

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Bringing peace back in: Presidential address to the Peace Science Society, 2013

Cited by 30 publications

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Killing Social Leaders for Territorial Control: The Unintended Consequences of Peace

Killing Social Leaders for Territorial Control: The Unintended Consequences of Peace

The challenge of human rights for peace research

Introduction to the Proceedings of the 14th Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference

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