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The Environment and Peace

International Journal on World Peace Posted on January 29, 2021 by Gordon AndersonJanuary 29, 2021

Introduction to IJWP, March 2021 All human activity has environmental consequences. Some types of activity are highly destructive, while other activities can be sustainable. On the one extreme hunting animals to extinction, leveling forests, and disregard for the proliferation of toxic materials and industrial wastes is activity that makes the world inhabitable for human beings. At the other extreme is the call to depopulate the earth through forms of genocide so the environment is undisturbed … Continue reading →

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Deterrence, Diplomacy, and Refugees: Then and Now

International Journal on World Peace Posted on December 14, 2020 by Gordon AndersonDecember 14, 2020

Introduction to IJWP, December 2020 The world has changed a lot since World War II. Science gave us the nuclear bomb, the internet, and the means to more than triple the world’s population—from 2.3 billion to 7.9 billion. The articles in this issue address how these developments have changed deterrence, diplomacy, and refugees. Our first article, “Southern Asia Strategic Triangle: Deterrence Then and Now,” by Muzammil Ahad Dar both describes the evolving nature of deterrence … Continue reading →

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Constructivism, Identity, and the “Religions” of Post-Modernism

International Journal on World Peace Posted on August 21, 2020 by Gordon AndersonOctober 29, 2020

Introduction to IJWP, September 2020 This issue of IJWP marks the first time that our authors have used a constructivist approach to international relations. Constructivism begins with the premise that international relations are socially constructed and that states behave more on the basis of the identity of other states than on their material resources. In an excerpt from International Relations Theory, Sarina Theys, citing Alexander Wendt, explained constructivism as follows: Alexander Wendt (1995) offers an … Continue reading →

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The Roles of Power and Communication in Peacemaking and Peacekeeping

International Journal on World Peace Posted on June 9, 2020 by Gordon AndersonOctober 29, 2020

Introduction to IJWP, June 2020 This issue of International Journal on World Peace has three articles related to peacemaking and peacekeeping in Africa. The principles discussed apply to peacemaking and peacekeeping anywhere in the world. The first step is the creation of negative peace, the absence of fighting, and the second step involves positive peace, dialogue, negotiations, and a legal framework in which to work together for the common good. There is first an important … Continue reading →

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Special Issue on the Rohingya Crisis

International Journal on World Peace Posted on March 2, 2020 by Gordon AndersonAugust 24, 2020

Guest Editor: Norman K. Swazo, North-South Universtiy, Dhaka, Bangladesh On 27-28 July, 2019, the Department of Political Science and Sociology and the South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance (SIPG) of North South University (NSU) in Dhaka Bangladesh, together with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), sponsored and convened an international academic conference—International Conference on Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh: Challenges and Sustainable Solutions. This special issue includes four papers that together provide background … Continue reading →

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Utopian Vision and Social Progress

International Journal on World Peace Posted on November 27, 2019 by Gordon AndersonMay 29, 2020

Introduction to IJWP, December 2019 This issue of International Journal on World Peace has three very different articles: one on utopianism and peace, one on the nature of “enlightenment,” and one on the history of power struggles and human rights in Colombia. All of these articles are, nevertheless, related to the idea of social progress. Some ideas of “progress” are based on group advancement, where power is used by one group to conquer a group … Continue reading →

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Interreligious Foundations of a Peaceful State

International Journal on World Peace Posted on August 6, 2019 by Gordon AndersonAugust 6, 2019

Introduction to IJWP, September 2019 The relation of religion to governance is one of the most important yet disputed aspects of the modern state. Should a state merely administer services on a territory or should it use its force to impose a specific set of religious beliefs and values on all of its citizens and residents? And, if a specific set of values is imposed, should there be limits to what the state is allowed … Continue reading →

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Beyond Ideology: Measuring the Impact of Cultural Beliefs and Values on Political and Economic Development

International Journal on World Peace Posted on June 10, 2019 by Gordon AndersonMay 29, 2020

Introduction to IJWP June 2019 The authors of the four articles in this issue are contributing to the scientific study of political economy. Many contemporary political and economic policies are guided by beliefs, suppositions, passions, and interests, rather than historical analyses and scientific measurements that correlate policies and desired outcomes. In this environment there is endless partisan argumentation, name-calling, and attempts to use political or military force to impose the will and the opinions of … Continue reading →

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Terrorism, Human Security, Human Rights, and Responsibility

International Journal on World Peace Posted on March 1, 2019 by Gordon AndersonApril 18, 2019

Introduction to IJWP, March 2019 “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” is a saying that reveals the ambiguity of an emotionally charged word, “terrorism.” The word “terrorism” evokes fear in members of the group that might be attacked. A “terrorist” is a label used to classify a person as evil, dangerous, outside the law, and a target for removal from the streets. People often become so concerned for their security that they will … Continue reading →

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Religion, Consciousness, and Peace Research

International Journal on World Peace Posted on December 1, 2018 by Gordon AndersonMarch 25, 2019

Introduction to IJWP, December 2018 Social science research methods are able to produce verifiable knowledge about society that is more reliable than the seemingly arbitrary suppositions of religious traditions based on prophetic revelation or sacred texts, or on ideological belief systems based on other suppositions. Auguste Comte, “father of sociology,” proposed a threefold view of the evolution of social consciousness: (1) the theological stage, in which gods and spirits control our fate, (2) a metaphysical … Continue reading →

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