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What is a Just Peace? (Hardcover, New)
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What is a Just Peace? (Hardcover, New)
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Just War has attracted considerable attention. The words peace and
justice are often used together. Surprisingly, however, little
conceptual thinking has gone into what constitutes a Just Peace.
This book, which includes some of the world's leading scholars,
debates and develops the concept of Just Peace. The problem with
the idea of a Just Peace is that striving for justice may imply a
Just War. In other words, peace and justice clash at times.
Therefore, one often starts from a given view of what constitutes
justice, but this a priori approach leads - especially when imposed
from the outside - straight into discord. This book presents
conflicting viewpoints on this question from political, historical,
and legal perspectives as well as from a policy perspective. The
book also argues that Just Peace should be defined as a process
resting on four necessary and sufficient conditions: thin
recognition whereby the other is accepted as autonomous; thick
recognition whereby identities need to be accounted for;
renouncement, requiring significant sacrifices from all parties;
and finally, rule, the objectification of a Just Peace by a "text"
requiring a common language respecting the identities of each, and
defining their rights and duties. This approach based on a
language-oriented process amongst directly concerned parties, goes
beyond liberal and culturalist perspectives. Throughout the
process, negotiators need to build a novel shared reality as well
as a new common language allowing for an enduring harmony between
previously clashing peoples. It challenges a liberal view of peace
founded on norms claiming universal scope. The liberal conception
has difficulty in solving conflicts such as civil wars
characterized typically by fundamental disagreements between
different communities. Cultures make demands that are
identity-defining, and some of these defy the "cultural neutrality"
that is one of the foundations of liberalism. Therefore, the
concept of Just Peace cannot be solved within the liberal
tradition.
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