ORDER AND DISORDER IN THE DEFINITION OF PEACE Journal Article

Overview

abstract

• Both social science and American cultural discourse have traditionally defined peace in terms of predictable order. It is important to analyze this definition carefully to develop a persuasive critique of it. Cultures that value order above all else actually end up focusing on and increasing their sense of disorder for a variety of reasons discussed here. Defining peace solely in terms of order exacerbates this process, increasing peacelessness as well as injustice in several ways. Chaos theoy and clinical psychology suggest an alternative view of peace as an interplay of order and disorder that transcends the opposition between them. Instances of peace researchers (J. Galtung) and peace movements representing this alterntive definition of peace are also discussed.

CU Boulder Authors

• Chernus, Ira R

publication date

• April 1, 1993

has restriction

• closed

Date in CU Experts

• November 22, 2014 4:24 AM

Full Author List

• Chernus I

author count

• 1

published in

• Peace and Change: a journal of peace research  Journal

Other Profiles

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

• 0149-0508

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

• 1468-0130

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0130.1993.tb00170.x

Additional Document Info

start page

• 99

end page

• 125

volume

• 18

issue

• 2