PEACEST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Rwandan Genocide, Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation
2 Nov 2016
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Negative peace: peace movements, diplomacy, disarmament, peacekeeping last of the 4 strategies discussed on negative peace, connections between them. Peacekeeping uses military / police forces in order to control the violence. Occurs when certain conflict on the international level or even national level has become violent, and military / police forces are needed to control the situation. Why does canada have an international popularity for peacekeeping: the idea of peacekeeping is partially a canadian invention (much canadian influence by means of the former prime minister lester b. pearson) The use of the united nations in order to control the escalation of violence. If you stop the mechanism of violence but do not stop the initiation of it, you are not truly helping: you are allowing people to rest and become even more violent. The use of military forces is only considered a mechanism for peace if it only promotes the resolution of the conflict.
