Peace Studies = Academic research on causes of war and conditions for peace

Origin of                        Peace Studies = research on avoidance of war, especially nuclear war = negative peace          + positive peace

Committee to Send Vietnam War Pictures (ed.): Liberation War in Vietnam, 1980, p. 76 (photo by Bun'yo Ishikawa)

10th Anniversary of the Dept of International Politics Hiroshima Shudo University. From left, Mitsuo, Yo Henmi, Robert Green, Motoko Mekata, Jonathan Schell, & Motofumi Asai. 3/15/00

absence of war minimization of direct violence clothes food shelter human rights welfare empowerment minimization of structural violence

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