Logic Of Peace Research Articles

On peace and its logic.

Glowacki argues that the human capacity for peace emerged 100,000 years ago, and that the logic of peace is such that the traits and technologies that enable peace are the same that are used to wage war. In my commentary I raise some concerns about these points as well as about Glowacki's understanding of peace.

The paradox of prevention in the Women, Peace and Security agenda

AbstractPrevention is a central pillar of the ‘Women, Peace and Security’ agenda, a policy architecture governing gender and conflict that is anchored in a suite of United Nations Security Council resolutions adopted under the title of ‘Women and Peace and Security’. In this article, I argue that prevention is currently constituted within the WPS agenda in multiple ways, all of which are organised in accordance with different logics: a logic of peace; a logic of militarism; and a logic of security. This presents prevention as a paradox, because in operation it collapses back into a logic of security, even as it is constructed and positioned as security's temporal and conceptual other. I provide a close reading of the WPS resolutions and show how the articulations of prevention across the agenda, and in certain resolutions, operate according to logics of security and militarism. The significance of such an argument is twofold: it lies both in the possibility of reconstruction of prevention in the WPS agenda according to different logics, and in the potential of undoing security – as the manifestation of prevention in practice – in queer, feminist, decolonial, and posthuman ways of knowing and encountering the world.

Auf der Suche nach einer komplexen Friedenslogik –Versuch einer metatheoretischen Verortung undNeuorientierung

The dualistic juxtaposition of the logic of peace and the logic of security is necessary for the political debate but not sufficient to overcome the dominance of the security approach in political theory and practice. This article seeks to broaden and deepen the understanding of the relationship between the logic of peace and the logic of security on different levels of meaning. Firstly, this relationship is explored on the level of meaning of a logic of action and intervention. Secondly, this relationship is discussed on the level of meaning of a logic of research and the meta-theoretical paradigms on which the logic of action is constructed. Thirdly, this relationship is further reflected on the level of meaning of a logic of thought and rationality. Founded in a philosophy of complexity a dialogical “logic of complexity” is proposed as a metaparadigm for a complex logic of peace that is both critical and integrative of the logic of security.

Friedenslogik als konstruktive Angstbewältigung – eine Neuvermessung in Anschluss an die Tiefenpsychologie Fritz Riemanns

The four basic fears described by Fritz Riemann are a useful frame to revisit the logic of peace and the logic of security with regard to their positioning to each other. This approach stipulates that instead of the logic of peace and the logic of security being opposite to each other a third logic - the logic of capitulation - needs to be introduced to be the opposite. It shows that the logic of peace holds a middle position, integrating the extremes dynamically and flexibly to different situations without developing a fixed inclination to just one.

Friedenslogik – ein heuristisches Projekt

The logic of peace approach is a heuristic project. It can be developed in two ways. The first one begins with concept-related reflections. In this perspective, the discrimination between peace and security becomes part of peace itself. Furthermore, the logic of peace is characterized by abstract parameters like sociality, symmetry, and averseness to violence. The second way starts with the analysis of the contemporary peace discourse. It adds a conflict-orientated perspective and generates a set of five questions and answers - for instance with regard to the defined problem and its causes. Both ways lead to the same end, but each of them deserves more elaboration.

Friedenslogik – Leistungsvermögen, Geltungsanspruch, Anfragen*

The logic of peace approach possesses specific potentials: It distills a few essentials of peace, makes peace more fluid, and defines peace and security in a special manner. Maybe it also provides a base for a deep reflexive but always incomplete theory of peace. The claimed validity can be described as a conditioned universality. Points of criticism can be refuted: The discrimination between peace and security is still necessary. Safety remains an important value, but it should be achieved by the logic of peace instead by the logic of security. Obviously, a powerful and ‘hell-bent’ aggressor is an excessive demand. But this is true for all logics. Instead of giving up the approach, it is better to make contextual adjustments and conduct deeper elaboration.

Migration als Chance statt als Problem

Local integration policies provide alternatives to the German federal policy towards refugees which puts emphasis on security concerns. A theoretical conception of the former following the logic of peace includes the proactive handling of uncertainties and a differentiated, inclusive design. It perceives migration as a chance and aims to improve the opportunities to participate for all inhabitants. It strives to strengthen the population’s intercultural openness and to organize integration processes with civil society and refugees alike. Respect for human dignity constitutes its central orientation point. In the observation of integration processes, it adopts an extended perspective.

The Logic of Peace and the Logic of Justice

The Logic of Peace and the Logic of Justice

Europe Undivided: The New Logic of Peace in U.S.-Russian Relations

Inventing rules of behaviour for the nuclear era challenging the bipolar order testing the utility of nuclear restraints after the Cold War bringing order out of chaos principles, leaders and the use of force transforming nuclear deterrence devising an interim security order in Europe achieving a stable peace in Europe.