PEACEST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: David Cortright, Peace And Conflict Studies, Structural Violence

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Peace Studies
• Course: PEACEST 1A03
• Professor: Jorge Fabra- Zamora

Document Summary

Peace studies lecture 2: monday september 12 2016. Peace studies is a field of research, created after wwii, one of the most pressing humanities concerns. John galtung (norwegian peace scholar, founder of peace studies), two kinds of peace, six activities. David cortright (peace scholar, notre dame, kroc institute: difficulty of basic notations: peace is a contested notion. The time problem (we know things; we cannot define them) The counter-example problem (every definition has another example) Solution: the need for metaphors, definitions, distinctions. Outer peace: a virtue of human relationships, groups, and social constitutions. Question: what about the psychological conditions? (webel) psychological state of groups, Necessity of the individual of groups: positive and negative peace (galtung) Direct violence (d), structural violence (s), cultural violence (c) Discourse of justifying violence: no discourse c. Webel: we can think of peace negatively (peace as domination: some elements.