Exploring Varieties of Peace: Advancing the Agenda

Q2 Social Sciences

Journal of Peacebuilding and Development Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI:10.1177/1542316621995641

Elisabeth Olivius, Malin Åkebo

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Abstract

Within peace and conflict research, the study of peace has received far less scholarly attention than the study of war and violence (Gleditsch et al., 2014). Moreover, among the studies that pay particular attention to peace, a negative peace conception, which equates peace with the absence of direct violence between formerly warring parties, has generally dominated. Consequently, peace itself is underconceptualised. Existing conceptions of peace do not provide analytical tools that can systematically describe, compare, and explain how peace varies across contexts. By way of illustration, the peace in Sri Lanka is evidently different from the peace in South Africa or the peace in Cambodia, and peace in all of these contexts has also evolved in different ways over time. Postwar processes of peacebuilding and development are complex and messy, and the outcomes are both unpredictable and highly diverse. This situation has prompted recent calls for the development of new theoretical frameworks, analytical tools, and methodologies that can enable nuanced empirical analyses and assessments of peace across empirical cases (e.g., Davenport et al., 2018; Diehl, 2016; Höglund & Söderberg Kovac, 2010; Jarstad et al., 2019).

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探索和平的多样性:推进议程

在和平与冲突研究中，和平研究受到的学术关注远远少于战争与暴力研究(Gleditsch et al.， 2014)。此外，在特别注意和平的研究报告中，普遍占主导地位的是一种消极的和平观念，即把和平等同于以前交战各方之间没有直接暴力。因此，和平本身的概念被低估了。现有的和平概念没有提供分析工具，可以系统地描述、比较和解释和平在不同情况下如何变化。举例来说，斯里兰卡的和平显然不同于南非的和平或柬埔寨的和平，所有这些情况下的和平也随着时间的推移以不同的方式发展。战后建设和平与发展进程复杂纷乱，结果难以预测，多样性极大。这种情况促使人们最近呼吁开发新的理论框架、分析工具和方法，以便能够对经验案例中的和平进行细致入微的实证分析和评估(例如，Davenport等人，2018;发,2016;Höglund & Söderberg Kovac, 2010;Jarstad et al.， 2019)。

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Journal of Peacebuilding and Development Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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