F Forest and Negative Peace; An Effect to the Global Peace

The Peace Mediator Effect

Statistical mechanics has proven to be able to capture the fundamental rules underlying phenomena of social aggregation and opinion dynamics, well studied in disciplines like sociology and psychology. This approach is based on the underlying paradigm that the interesting dynamics of multi-agent systems emerge from the correct definition of few parameters governing the evolution of each individu...

Global Peace through the Global University System

This book is an interesting collection of writings concerning the development of international partnerships and the pursuit of global peace. The book is divided into four basic parts that describe the international development of global peace by utilizing the concept of Global University. The precept here is to understand that the authors of the various topics believe that peace is obtainable i...

Violence , Peace , and Peace Research

Does the Global Economy Work for Peace?

Countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Angola, and Sierra Leone are now attempting to recover from major wars, often amidst continuing insecurity. The challenge is to achieve a broad-based recovery that benefits the majority of people. The economic and social recovery of conflict-affected countries cannot be separated from their interaction with the rest of the world through flows of finance, goo...

Peace Negotiations and Peace Talks: the Peace Process in the Public Sphere

The article develops an understanding of public deliberations during a peace process, focusing on the interaction between the elite level negotiations and the “public peace process.” It does so by examining the dialogical mechanisms that are set to work in the public sphere once the elite consider the possibility of identifying the former enemies as allies or friends. These dialogical mechanism...