Operationalizing Positive Peace: Canadian Approaches to International Security Policy and Practice

Seyle, D. Conor

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“…Some of these studies that see peace as 'aspirational' (Klem, 2018) have built upon critical peace scholarship inspired by Johan Galtung's (1971) distinctions between positive peace and negative peace. Negative peace, or the absence of physical conflict is contrasted with positive peace, defined as the absence of structural violence, whereby social structures maximize human flourishing and prevent injury (Seyle, 2019). Efforts to assess conditions of positive peace, such as the Davenport scale (Davenport et al, 2018, see also Wallensteen, 2015), or the Global Peace Index (Institute for Peace and Economics, 2022) have been small advancements, but the normative ambitions of these taxonomies are unclear.…”

Section: The Broader Context: 'Peace' In Academic Theory 12mentioning

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Martial(ling) peace at the war museum: Emotion, desires and representations of the war-peace dichotomy

Wegner

2024

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This article investigates the role of emotions and the conceptual use of peace to justify martial violence. Drawing upon empirical evidence collected at the Canadian War Museum, the article explores how representations of war history present militarized violence as both a threat to, and the solution for, global peace. Building on scholarship in IR and Peace Studies that theorizes the relationship between war and peace, this article puts forward a novel analytical concept – martial peace – to investigate this paradox. It theorizes that manoeuvring peace as a justification for military activities not only results in depoliticizing the contexts of conflicts and war, but also serves to euphemize the violence that occurs in the name of peace and within so-called peaceful societies. Using Canada as a case study, the article explores how martial peace obscures settler colonialism and generates affective militarism as key components of nationalist projects.

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Section: The Broader Context: 'Peace' In Academic Theory 12mentioning

confidence: 99%

Martial(ling) peace at the war museum: Emotion, desires and representations of the war-peace dichotomy

Wegner

2024

Cooperation and Conflict

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Operationalizing Positive Peace: Canadian Approaches to International Security Policy and Practice

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Martial(ling) peace at the war museum: Emotion, desires and representations of the war-peace dichotomy

Martial(ling) peace at the war museum: Emotion, desires and representations of the war-peace dichotomy

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