Just peace

JUst peace

• When your only tool is a hammer every problem looks like a nail

  • Always a solution

• Just war to just peace

• If you want peace be prepared for war

• In most cases it is cultural predisposition or presumption to take war for granted as a normal, natural and justifiable feature of national activity

• War is simply what nations do and powerful nations pride themselves on doing war well

• It rarely occurs to most people to wonder whether war itseld may be morally problematic

• When presumed uncritically, warism is like racism and sexism, prejudicial bias that was is morally justifiable – morally required which guides attitudes and instituions amiss

• War may follow inevitably from particular conditions of injustice but such conditions

Pacifism

Doing nothing

Just peace

Absolute non-violence

 Milatisrm

use violence

warism: part of human condition

if you want to make peace we have to prepare for peace

peastain cooperative internal order

peace is more than the absence if war

viewed positively peace is a social order based on agreement arising from within groups through the cooperative participation of members

this stands in contrast to social order imposed from the outside

making positive peace means identifying and building conditions that create and su

If you want peace poster justice

Peace

• Absence of war and violence

• That places violence as the central with peace being secondary

• Philosophers of peace call this negative peace – peace in the sense of absence of violence

Basic concept of peace

Peace is related to justice

Three terms:

Conflict

• o   Incompatible desired outcomes

• o   Conflicting desired outcomes

• o   Not violence or force

Violence

• o   One response to conflict

• o   Form of force

• o   Used in harmful way against someone who does not want to be harmed

and force

• Non violent actions can be forceful

• Energy or power used to bring out some changes

·      Peace is taken to be a secondary cocept

From just war to just peace

The shift from just war reasoning to the just peace reasoning

War may follow inevetably from particukar conditions of injusice, but such conditions are contingent, not necessary

Personal, social, and international relationships can be arranged to avoid persisten injustices

This is why pacifism goes beyond a spectrum of anti-war  forms to embrace positive conceptions of peace

Peace is more than the absence of war.

 Viewed positively, peace is a social order based on agreement arising from within groups through the cooperative participation of member.

This stands in contrast to social order imposed from the outside, by force.

Making positive peace involves identifying and building conditions that create and sustain cooperative internal order.

Much of this work goes on … within a conceptual framework that takes war for granted and thus distorts the concept of peace, narrowing it to concern for one’s own immediate nation, religion, culture and so on, often deying such peaceful concern to distant, different and ‘foreign’ others.

But when positive peace is built, … the circle of concern is widened by opposition to war and universal recognition of human rights

si vis pacem para bellum

Si vis pacem para pacem

Si vis pacem cole iustitiam

·      Bellum – if you want peace prepare for war

·      Pacem – if you want peace prepare for peace

·      Iustitam – if you want peace prepare for justice

Negative peace vs positive peace

Negative peace is the absence of violence or conflict. It's when people are not fighting or actively harming one another. Positive peace, on the other hand, is more than just the absence of violence. It's a state of harmony and wellbeing

Positive peace includes things like respect, justice, and equality. It’s about more than just avoiding conflict; it’s about creating a peaceful environment where everyone can thrive.

Negative peace is the absence of violence or the absence of war. It is often thought of as the only type of peace, when there is no fighting or violence. The advantage of negative peace is that it can prevent violence and war.

Just peace

Should be defined as process whereby peace and justice are reached together by two or more parties

Resting on four necessary and sufficent conditions

Thin recognition

• The other is accepted as autonomous

• somewhat similar to the legitimate authority central to Just War doctrine

Thick recognition

• Identities need to be accounted for

• much more complex and includes considerations such as the essential just cause element(s) of a Just War, as well as the right intention, and the last resort requirements of that theory.

Renouncement

• Significant sacrifices from all parties

Rule

• Objectification by a text requiring a common language, defining rights and duties

• What are the resault of the peace recognitions

World council of churches

·      Today

·      350 member churches

·      110 countries

·      Mio christians

An ecumenical call to just peace

• Goal : building an ecumenical consesun peace

• An ecumenical call to just peace

• We pursue justie at the expense of peace

• Peace at the expense of justice

• To conceeive peace apart from justice is to compromise that justice and peace shall embrace

• When justice and peace are lacking or set in opposition we need to reform our ways

• Let us rise, therefor and work together fo peace and justice

Definition of just peace

• Is a collective and dynamic but grounded process of freeing human beings from fear and want

• Overcoming enmity, discrimination and oppression

• Establishing conditions for just relationships that privilege the experience of the most vulnurable and respect the integrity of creation

• The way of just peace is fundamentally different from the concept of just war and much more than criteria for protecting people from the junjust of force

Dimension of just peace

Peace in the community – justice within societies

Peace among peoples – war and peace international law

Peace in marketplace – economic justice

• If we want to make peace its not about silencing weapons

• Create conditions that strengthen conditions

Peace with the earth – ecological justice, climate justice

• Not just among humans