PEACEST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Intellectual, Treaty, Nuclear Warfare

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

Document Summary

Peace studies lecture 7: wednesday september 28th 2016. Restricted and wide understandings of violence (coady / galtung) Building negative peace (peace movements, diplomacy, disarmament, peace-keeping) Building positive peace (human rights, health, environment, gender, economy, international law) Technical definition of war / armed conflict. Traditional and contemporary wars / nuclear war. There are several courses about war in peace studies! Defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374): (cid:862)war is a state orga(cid:374)ized (cid:894) tates, ca(cid:374)ada, north korea et(cid:272)(cid:895), ope(cid:374)-ended (cid:272)olle(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)fli(cid:272)t or hostilit(cid:455). (cid:863) Other definitions: lewis richardson: 50,000, singer: 1000. Conflict, between states, officially declared, rules of war (international humanitarian. Bavarian succession (1778-9): declared, no shot was fired. Korea(cid:374) war (cid:894)(cid:374)ot de(cid:272)lared / (cid:859)poli(cid:272)e a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)(cid:859)(cid:895) Wars of today are based on terrorism, threats and barbaric acts, over time warfare has changed and become more brutal and anonymous. One thing that has stayed the same is the idea of war, killing people in the name of some objective.