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The society holds an annual conference, attended by scholars from throughout the world, and publishes two scholarly journals: Journal of Conflict Resolution and Conflict Management and Peace Science. In 1964, the International Peace Research Association was formed at a conference organized by Quakers in Clarens, Switzerland.
The sociological study of peace, war, and social conflict uses sociological theory and methods to analyze group conflicts, especially collective violence and alternative constructive nonviolent forms of conflict transformation. These concepts have been applied to current wars, like the War in Ukraine, and researchers note that ordinary people ...
The Richardson Institute for Peace Studies was the first peace & conflict research centre in the UK and one of the first in the world. [1] It is part of the Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Religion at Lancaster University, where its members publish research, hold lectures and workshops, and run academic outreach programmes.
Conflict theories are perspectives in political philosophy and sociology which argue that individuals and groups (social classes) within society interact on the basis of conflict rather than agreement, while also emphasizing social psychology, historical materialism, power dynamics, and their roles in creating power structures, social movements, and social arrangements within a society.
The journal was established in 1957. In 1959, the journal was run by the Center for Research on Conflict Resolution at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. [2] When the Center closed in 1971 due to lack of funding, the journal was run by a team at Yale University. [2] Since 2009, the journal has been run by a team at the University of ...
Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering peace studies published by Wiley-Blackwell for the Peace History Society and the Peace and Justice Studies Association. It was established in 1972 and the editor-in-chief is Heather Fryer (Creighton University). [1] [2]
In Galtung's 1969 paper, "Violence, Peace and Peace Research", [20] he presents his theory of the Conflict Triangle, a framework used in the study of peace and conflict, with the purpose of defining the three key elements of violence that form this "triangle." The theory is based on the principle that peace must be defined by widely accepted ...
Human peace sign - symbolically represents an holistic approach to peacebuilding.. Peacebuilding is an activity that aims to resolve injustice in nonviolent ways and to transform the cultural and structural conditions that generate deadly or destructive conflict.