TY - JOUR
T1 - Patterns of Peace
AU - Richmond, Oliver P.
PY - 2006/10/1
Y1 - 2006/10/1
N2 - Different strategies are used to conceptualise peace in the literature on International Relations, peace and conflict studies. These have included strategies based upon the notion that peace is geographically contained, and constructed by race, identity, ideology, or power, and has universal qualities, although it is also utopian and unlikely to be fully achieved. What has developed more recently in the relevant literature is a hybrid version of peace - the liberal peace. This is universal, attainable, and dependent upon a specific methodology. The following essay outlines the main discursive characteristics associated with peace, and with the emergence of the concept of the liberal peace. It outlines the patterns of thought prevalent in the conceptualisation of peace, and their ontological and epistemological implications in the context of the liberal peace framework.This essay is partially based upon a section of my new book, The Transformation of Peace (London: Palgrave, 2005). I take responsibility for any errors in this essay.
AB - Different strategies are used to conceptualise peace in the literature on International Relations, peace and conflict studies. These have included strategies based upon the notion that peace is geographically contained, and constructed by race, identity, ideology, or power, and has universal qualities, although it is also utopian and unlikely to be fully achieved. What has developed more recently in the relevant literature is a hybrid version of peace - the liberal peace. This is universal, attainable, and dependent upon a specific methodology. The following essay outlines the main discursive characteristics associated with peace, and with the emergence of the concept of the liberal peace. It outlines the patterns of thought prevalent in the conceptualisation of peace, and their ontological and epistemological implications in the context of the liberal peace framework.This essay is partially based upon a section of my new book, The Transformation of Peace (London: Palgrave, 2005). I take responsibility for any errors in this essay.
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U2 - 10.1080/13600820600929705
DO - 10.1080/13600820600929705
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33750527131
SN - 1360-0826
VL - 20
SP - 367
EP - 394
JO - Global Society
JF - Global Society
IS - 4
ER -