SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rulemaking, Sensemaking, Power Politics
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Gs232 peace, conflict and transformation 2015-10-22 6:48:00 pm. Office hours: dawb 5-120 tuesday 1-3pm (or appointment) The use of force in the name of peace. Ontology (fancy word for stuff: looking for law-like regularities, humans tend to be less predictable than planets, understanding, sense-making, predicting. Unhcr, etc: international law on the rise (slowly), emergence of international criminal court. Key points of contention (regarding last week: realism believe in the power of state, more so believe in community and not a higher/ international institution the un is not. The list never ends : the problem of negative peace: too minimalist. Structural violence: if you are going to get to positive peace you have to work on the structural issues such as gender inequality, positive peace is an ideal to strive for. Justice and peace: can there be peace without justice, mlk used non violence as a political strategies to change the.