Introduction: A Limited Peace

Democracy and Peace: General Law or Limited Phenomenon?

Recent empirical International Relations research suggests that democracies, in general, are uniquely paci c. The strongest statistical results, however, have been obtained from datasets that violate the assumptions of the statistical models typically used in estimation. The most widely cited democratic peace studies, moreover, arbitrarily categorize relatively continuous democracy measures and...

Violence , Peace , and Peace Research

Introduction to the Proceedings of the Conference on Approaches to Creating a Stable World Peace

A conference on Approaches to Creating a Stable World Peace was held by the Maharishi International University (MIU) Institute of World Peace at MIU in the Spring of 1991.1 A common theme in the conference was that the basic structure and dynamics of society must change in order to achieve a stable world peace. The speakers described a variety of ways in which a stable world peace was being pur...

Concept of Peace in Peace Studies: A Short Historical Sketch

This paper attempts to trace the development of the concept of peace in peace studies, by an examination of studies on the peace concept and definitions of peace by peace researchers, from two perspectives of peace value and peace sphere. It shows that the concept of peace employed in peace studies has been expanded both in peace value and peace sphere to include more than one peace value and p...

A slice of peace.

In 2009 I visited a number of pediatric emergency departments in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to see whether there were opportunities for me to contribute as a physician. I was particularly taken with Professor Eitan Kerem, chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Hadassah–Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. Professor Kerem described the history of Hadassah Hospital, the diversity of patients and disease, ...