PACS201 Final: Final Review This gives a final look at all of the different paradigms side by side. It's very useful to clarify some confusing parts of the course material.
16 Oct 2011
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Peace is more than the absence of war, it requires broad-based consensus-building on norms/rules; institutionalized cooperation on global scale, progress is possible. Direct and structural through: the powers of law consensus, institution building and global civil society. Complex intersection of economic, social, political and environmental processes (poor countries face major disadvantages, under provision of public goods) Violence: from misgovernance, structural inequalities and lack of effective and humane international institutions, respect for international law. Peace through the power of through: collective action and communication, respect for advocacy, willpower and interests and needs disciplined rejection of violence (win/win solutions) and reconciliation. Nonviolence as a way of life non-injury, love of enemy, spirituality and nonviolence. Peace (comprehensive) through: unlearning violence, development of whole human being, personal acts of moral courage and imagination. Violence from: troubled historical relationships between individuals and groups, misperceptions and self-serving biases and miscommunication.
