Some Concept of Peace’s Perspective a Takeshi Ishida
no conflict, violence or war, b order, c mind, d law, e coercive power, f divinity or, g goodness. He attempts to group the concepts of peace under these
seven principles.
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d Gunnar Johnson
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Johnson presents three major concepts of peace: 1 peace as a world without war, 2 peace as world justice, and 3 peace as world order, abstracts
element of these concepts into theoretical categories:
1 The peace is not war category
The peace is not war category is concerned with disarmament, control of or elimination of war, understanding the root causes of war, and the
control of or elimination of war-like to these ends most of peace research has been dedicated. Johnson identifies three conceptual groups under this world
without war view of peace. First are those concerned with eliminating causes of war. Second are those committed to finding non-violent ways of settling
conflict. And third, those who wish to remove the instruments of war and mediate confrontations which might lead to war.
Johnson is clearly including under the peace is not war category such concepts as 1 peace through no violence, 2 peace through conflict resolution,
and 3 peace through disarmament.
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Anonymous, Concept of Peace. Accessed on November 15, 2008. http:www.colorado.educonflictfull_text_searchPeacePapers89-14.htm.
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Gunnar Johnson July 3, 1889 – June 19, 1926 was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1912 he finished eleventh in the hammer throw
competition. Anonymous, Gunnar Johnson. Accessed on November 12, 2008. http:psycnet.apa.orgindex.cfm?fa=main.doiLandinguid=2006-12205-004.
2 The peace is social justice category
According to Johnson, The peace is social justice category contains two other important themes, first the awareness of the presence of structural
violence or violence perpetrated by social system. And second, the preference for research directed towards strategies of non-violent change. The peace as
social justice school has shifted focus from the causes of war to the conditions of violence and peace. In doing so it has continued to define peace in terms of
violence and has added conflict theory to peace theory.
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The peace as world order category
The peace as world order category attempts to address the problem
of human survival in the face of increasingly complex world problems such as nuclear war, and ecological disaster.
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e John Macquarrie
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Peace is viewed as a process of creating a more peaceful world, or of manifesting the latent true nature of humanity, where that peaceful world or latent
nature is ideal states or goals. The actual attainment of the goal or the existence of
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R.J. Rummel, What is Peace. Accessed on November 15, 2008. http:www.colorado.educonflictfull_text_searchPeacePapers89-14.htm.
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ANTILL, JOHN MACQUARIE 1866-1937 a soldier, was born on January 26, 1866 at Jarvisfield, Picton, New South Wales, second surviving son of John Macquarie Antill, grazier, and his
wife Jessie Hassall, née Campbell. His paternal grandfather was Major Henry Colden Antill, aide-de- camp to Governor Macquarie. Educated at Sydney Grammar School, he was working as a surveyor
when he joined the New South Wales Mounted Rifles in 1889. Commissioned as a captain on 19 January, he raised and commanded the Piston Squadron. Four years later he was sent to India by Major
General Sir Edward Hutton and attached to the 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, and the 2nd Dragoon guards for training. On his return in 1894 he was commissioned in the colonys Permanent
Military Forces and appointed to the instructional staff. R.J. Rummel, Antill, John Macquarie 1866 - 1937.
Accessed on November 15, 2008. http:adbonline.anu.edu.aubiogsA070084b.htm.
the goal is taken as a matter of faith, or of transcendent experience. However the process of creation is seen as more immediately important. According to
Macquarrie, The problem of peace is one of fractures. The process of peace is one of healing fractures.
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This worldview is the basis for the concept of peace as a process and the definition of peace as healing fractures. Macquarrie illustrates the
importance of worldview in determining concepts of peace. A worldview that does not have a basic orientation of fear leads to a concept of peace that is
integrative. Integrative in the sense that creation of peaceful relations and creation of peaceful social structures are incorporated.
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The concept of peace that is proposed by some experts above will be used to be referenced by some news concept of peace of the lyrics proposed that will
be analyzed in the chapter III.