Holistic Understanding of Peace - Social Dimension

1. Holistic
Understanding of
Peace
REPORT BY: JOSEPHINE J. ALABIN

2. What is peace for you?

3. Definition of Peace
 The simplest definition:
 “The absence of death and destruction as a result of war and
physical/direct violence”

4. Definition of Peace
 Alternative view that started in 1960’s
 Hicks( 1987) – “Peace is not achieved when there is indirect
or structural violence – ways in which people suffer from
violence built in its society via its social, political economic
systems”

5. WHAT ARE THESE SOCIAL, POLITICAL
AND ECONOMICS PROBLEMS?
 Extreme poverty
 Starvation
 Avoidable diseases
 Discrimination against minority groups
 Denial of human rights

6. Johan Galtung’s (1995) definition of
peace:
 Peace is the absence of violence not only personal or direct but also
structural or indirect
 Peace is both the absence of personal/direct violence and
the presence of social justice

7. Johan Galtung’s (1995) definition of
peace
NEGATIVE PEACE
 The absence of war or physical direct
violence
 A state reached through diplomacy
and negotiations
POSITIVE PEACE
 Positive peace is achieved through the
promotion of fair social condition.
 refers to the presence of just, non-
exploitable relationships, as well as
human and ecological well being,
such that root cause of conflict are
diminished

8. POSITIVE
PEACE
PEACENEGATIVE
PEACE
DIRECT
VIOLENCE
STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE
SOCIO-CULTURAL
VIOLENCE
ECOLOGICAL VIOLENCE
VIOLENCE

9. LEVEL OF PEACE
 Our understanding of peace should also include the various levels of
relationship, beginning with our personal peace and expanding to wide
circle.

10. Level of Peace PEACE B/W
AND THE EARTH
AND BEYOND
GLOBAL PEACE
RESPECT FOR OTHER
NATIONS, JUSTICE ,
TOLERANCE , COOPERATION
INTERGRPOUP/SOCIAL PEACE
RESPECT FOR OTHER GROUP WITHIN
NATION,JUSTICE,TOLERANCE, COOPERATION
INTERPERSONAL PEACE
RESPECT FOR OTHERS, JUSTICE, TOLERANCE
COOPERATION
PERSONAL PEACE
SELF-RESPECT, INNER RESOURCE, LOVE HOPE
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HARMONY WITH
NATURE
HARMONY WITH
OTHERS
HARMONY
WITH SELF

11. “Imagine all the people living
life in peace”
– Imagine (John Lennon)
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