Sept 3/8 Flashcards
What is positive peace?
Building a system of social justice
-process not a destination
What is negative peace?
- absence of war
- unresolved social justice issues
- background causes of conflict
- ongoing intermittent violence
Necessary causes
Lend themselves to a situation where war becomes possible
War is _______? There are many causes, not just one of war
Overdetermined
Sufficient causes
The trigger/catalyst of war
An accumulation of factors, which alone wouldn’t lead to war but together do
Instincts/Group Behaviour
- biological
- “militant enthusiasm”
Group behaviour
We loose our normal inhibitions about violence when around others who are equally hyped up
Eros
To create/connect
Anything positively compelling
Thanatos
Death/Destruction
Humans torn between ______ drives?
2
Narcissistic Injury
Our psychic drives become tools to a specific regimes needs
Sociobiology/evolutionary psychology
- aggression and war are adaptive
- war is valuable because it makes people stronger and culls the weak
Deterministic
Biologically inclined to violence
Constructed
- constructivist
- trained to violence -> fight wars
Mob mentality
Group actions absolve individual guilt
-heat of the moment
