Peace and participation in the discipline of Peace and Conflict Studies

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https://doi.org/10.5377/rlpc.v2i4.11425

Keywords:

Peace research, participation, peace, peace theory

Abstract

Through a review and critical reading of part of the existing academic literature in the discipline of Peace and Conflict Studies, this article analyzes the relationship between social participation established by the perspectives of Negative Peace, Liberal Peace, Positive Peace and Imperfect Peace with peace research and peacebuilding. As a result of this analysis, it is sustained that citizen participation is considered by the first approaches as unnecessary, while by the second as convenient but not essential. It is concluded that limiting the social participation of the population as a whole is epistemologically justified by considering human beings as objects, or as mere subjects subject to the influences of external forces that determine their existence; and it is found that it is the Transformative Peace approach that, transcending such justification, considers the integral participation of the population as a whole as an epistemological necessity of the discipline

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Author Biography

Esteban Ramos Muslera, Instituto Universitario en Democracia, Paz y Seguridad de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras

Esteban A. Ramos Muslera es Doctor en Ciencias Políticas por la Universidad de Valladolid (UVa), Máster en Investigación Participativa para el Desarrollo Local por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) y Licenciado en Ciencias Políticas por la misma universidad. Actualmente, es Coordinador del Área de Paz del Instituto Universitario en Democracia, Paz y Seguridad (IUDPAS) de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH), Council member de la International Peace Research Association (IPRA) y Co-Secretario General del Consejo Latinoamericano de Investigación para la Paz (CLAIP). Su última publicación es (2021) Transformative and Participative Peace: A Theoretical and Methodological Proposal of Epistemology for Peace and Conflict Studies. En: Oswald, Ú. y Günter Brauch, H. (Eds.), Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene. Springer, Volume 30 (pp. 187-208).

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Published

2021-05-03

How to Cite

Ramos Muslera, E. (2021). Peace and participation in the discipline of Peace and Conflict Studies. Latin American Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, 2(4), 49–64. https://doi.org/10.5377/rlpc.v2i4.11425

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Vol. 2 No. 4 (2021)

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Artículos de investigación

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