PEACEST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Peace Education, Peace And Conflict Studies, Conflict Transformation
17 Oct 2018
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Week 3: peace studies, peace research and peace education. Peace studies, peace research, and peace education are interconnected. As a transdisciplinary inquiry into the nature of peace and the reasons for wars and other forms of human conflict, peace studies has grown exponentially since its birth during mid-20th. Peace and conflict research as a distinct scholarly discipline took off soon after world war ii . (barash and webel, p. 24) Reasons for and outcomes of large and small scale conflicts. The nature of violence (including social oppression, discrimination, exploitation, marginalization structural violence) It may include political repressions, economic impoverishment, marginalization, psychological alternation. It may proceed unnoticed for a long time and slowly erodes values and degrades human life. Direct violence is fast, visible and dramatic and involves physical violence. Cultural violence is an aspect of culture that legitimizes structural and direct violence (e. g. the nazi theory of superior race )
