PACS 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Security Studies, Self-Justification, Peace And Conflict Studies

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Peace And Conflict Studies
• Course: PACS 10
• Professor: Zook, D C

Document Summary

Pacs 10 lecture 1 the problem with peace. The main reason why it"s necessary is that pacs asks different questions than political. Critics question if it"s too normative, if it assumes that peace preferable to conflict, and if it"s activism disguised as scholarship. It emerged in the 60s, so it"s tied to a hippie image. However, peace is actually harder than war! Peace is as complex as war; there are many types of peace: Negative: the absence of war/conflict or the suppression and managing of violence. Positive: the active cultivation of relations that are acceptable and beneficial to all parties involved. Pacs does not deny that conflict occurs. Disagrees that conflict leads to violence and that violence is an effective solution to conflict. Definition of conflict: the clash of incompatible goals or preferences. Pacs says that conflict is a moment of opportunity. Pacs approaches large and small conflicts with the same concepts.