Efficacy of Peace Enforcement in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant

Abstract

War is a social creation which entails the creation as well as subversion of authority figures. Wars range from basic, to those fought with highly advanced inventions. Regardless of the method, peace is the natural outcome of all wars. Various studies have been undertaken to understand the methods and tactics involved in peace establishment operations. Despite such efforts, wars continue to emerge in different regions of the world. This study aims to identify the most common methods of peace establishment and discern the productiveness of each of the methods identified. Theory of Post Traumatic Growth (PTG) and Theory of Tragic Optimism are used to illustrate how war is both traumatic and therapeutic in nature. The author has indicated two kinds of peace establishment which are widely practised in everyday world. One is a widely favoured method consisting of negotiation and the other involves the use of deceit and force to establish peace. It has been observed that thrusting peace upon society proves beneficial in the short run but becomes detrimental later. On the whole as negotiated peace is established amicably, it tends to last longer in the society.