What Is a Just Peace?
Language: English
Pages: 246
ISBN: 0199275351
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Including contributions from some of the world's leading scholars, this ground-breaking book provides a carefully considered analysis of what constitutes a just peace. A cross-section of conflicting viewpoints from political, historical, and legal perspectives are brought together in this book to demonstrate how just peace has to be a mediated peace.
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in all politics, although they were cruelly wide between the negotiating and the actual on-the-ground environments of the Oslo peace process. But what I am suggesting is that a sort of orthodoxy of hypocrisy developed inside the Arab and Israeli camps that in eVect fuelled and capitalized the worst aspect of each society. The tendency towards orthodoxy, uncritical repetition of received ideas, fear of innovation, one or more types of double-speak, etc. has had an extremely rich life. I mean, in
‘barbarians’ elaborated by theorists of the natural rights tradition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The second concerns the American and French debates on the deWnition of the terms ‘constitution’ and ‘nation’ at the end of the eighteenth century. I shall use these examples to illustrate the rise of a uniform way of apprehending otherness and law. The third turns to another body of thought, which approached non-Europeans and native peoples completely diVerently. I shall try to show
not without reason, that he [man] seeks out, and is willing to joyn in Society with others who are already united, or have a 32 John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 301 and 339. 33 Ibid., 298. Justice, Peace, and History 29 mind to unite for the mutual Preservation of their Lives, Liberties and Estates, which I call by the general Name—Property.’34 Locke’s deWnition of property is relevant to our discussions here. Since
natural society.44 Kant, who is often viewed as the founding father of liberal political thinking, dissociated himself from Grotius, Pufendorf, and Vattel, calling them the ‘sorry comforters’ in his essay on perpetual peace.45 Looking at the various texts in which Kant discussed peace and world order, it is clear that humanity can achieve freedom and moral progress if it fulWls certain conditions, broadly set out in his perpetual peace project. His three deWnitive articles correspond to the
published in 1761, he observed that in this city the Reader: will not here meet Legions of armed Men rushing abroad into the World, and with the Thunders of War, disturbing the Peace of Mankind; but, on the contrary, he will be conveyed to the gentler Scenes of Academic Silence, where Philosophy is more studied than the Sword. He will see a People happy and free, yet who have defended themselves with Bravery on every Occasion, against the various Encroachments of Tyranny and Oppression; . . . and