Peace Studies
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      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

TOPICS OF PEACE STUDIES IN BIRD'S EYE VIEW

essay: TRANSFORMING HUMANITY THROUGH METANOIA

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