PEACEST 1A03 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 3: Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Peace And Conflict Studies, Transdisciplinarity
25 Jan 2018
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Peace studies and con ict resolution: the need for trans-disciplinarity. Con icts arise from all sorts of distinctions such as gender, race or class inequality. The discipline of peace studies understands violence and its negotiation by con ict (negative peace) and peace-building by harmony and cooperation (positive peace). The discipline of peace studies understands violence by looking at multiple disciplines in order to advance this task such as, political science, sociology and law, not looking at the discipline of peace studies. However this can raise the problem of coexistence and integrates among different systems of knowledge. Psychology, with its focus on individuals, usually at the micro level, informs us of the extent to which peace has been achieved, that is when basic needs are met for survival and wellness. Needless to say, peace studies needs all of these disciplines, much like health studies (aka as medical studies, another misnomer) needs physics, chemistry, anatomy, physiology, pathology, and so on.
