Peace Education Flashcards
an approach in game theory
to understand the relationship between peace and conflicts.
The Peace & War Game Theory
The Peace & War Game Theory initially used by who?
academic groups and computer
simulations
The Peace & War Game Theory to study what?
possible cooperation and
aggression strategies
It is the process of modeling the strategic interaction between two or more players in a situation containing set rules and outcomes.
The Peace & War Game Theory
Example of The Peace & War Game Theory
Classroom rules
It is a theory that suggests peace is part of a triad, which also includes justice and wholeness (or well-being)
The Active Peace Theory
Who taught the meaning of the terms peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding?
Galtung (1976)
What are the Triad of Active Peace
peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding
is the transformation of conflicts away from violence, oppression, and subjugation by social and political means. Mediation, conferencing, circles peacemaking, and kindred ‘encounter’ forms.
Peacemaking
Nonviolent Accompaniment needs not be organized or public in its motivations, but is more effective when it is done publicly, and the reasons are publicized. Most well-known exemplars are Nonviolent Peaceforce, Christian Peacemaker
Teams, Muslim Peacemaker Teams
Peacekeeping
providing for human needs so that the associated conflicts involving
sustaining life (land, water, food, health care, etc.) are ameliorated or eliminated.
For example, those who are less
fortunate need to be helped meet their needs so that they will
have peaceful life.
Peace building
(in international relations) It suggests that states may secure their survival by preventing any one state from gaining enough military power to dominate all others
The Balance of Power Theory
Peace defined in layman’s term
state of calm and tranquility
state free of oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions
Peace defined beyond the individual sphere
state of security or order within a community provided for by law
Peace is the absence of war and violence said by who?
Grotius (1625)
What year was realized that war and direct violence did not only cause chaos and death
late 1960s
Who is one of the main theorists in peace and conflict studies?
Johan Galtung (1964)
Johan Galtung introduced what concepts?
negative peace, positive peace, structural violence, etc.
What is the absence of violence?
Negative peace
What is the presence of social justice and equality, and the absence of structural or indirect violence?
Positive peace
Positive peace characterized by the presence of?
harmonious social relations and the “integration of human society” (Galtung, 1964)