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negative peace: a standalone construct

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Peace and conflict studies

peace understood only as the absence of direct, personal violence such as war, without regard to whether unjust social structures remain.

In peace and conflict studies, negative peace refers to peace understood only as the absence of direct, personal violence such as war, without regard to whether unjust social structures remain. This meaning comes from Galtung (1969) in Journal of Peace Research.[1]

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direct violence1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct positive peace1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct structural violence1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Galtung, J. (1969). Violence, Peace, and Peace Research. Journal of Peace Research, 6(3), 167-191. https://doi.org/10.1177/002234336900600301

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