Positive Peace in Theory and Practice : Strengthening the United Nations's Pre-Conflict Prevention Role

Positive Peace addresses how sustainable intra-state peace could best be elicited through the UN system in non-liberal/democratic divided societies. It offers a novel positive peace vision together with a comprehensive framework for positive peace that would strengthen the UN's conflict prevention pillars and complement its post-conflict peacebuilding efforts. Examining the shortcomings of eliciting sustainable intra-state peace through the UN system and the underlying positive peace paradigm of the liberal traditions, the book maintains that a novel positive peace vision and framework under the auspices of the UN is warranted. Building upon grievance-based explanations of violent conflicts and conflict transformation research, this book develops a comprehensive positive peace framework that involves the early tackling of identity divisions (i.e. Fundamental Conflicts) through UN facilitated deliberative and dialogical processes at the 1.5 track diplomacy level. This framework is designed to complement current UN post-conflict peacebuilding and structural prevention practice. By dealing both with how to operationalise early conflict prevention in a workable manner and developing a comprehensive yet viable positive peace approach, this book entails an extensive interdisciplinary approach and new in-depth analyses of the wide-ranging normative and policy aspects of the quest of elevating positive peace to a core objective of UN practice. Foreword / Johan Galtung -- The Realist, Kantian And Neo-kantian Conceptions Of Peace -- The Concept And Practical Frameworks Of Peace In The Un System -- A Theoretical Justification For A New Positive Peace Vision And Framework -- The Operational Formula Of Positive Peace -- The Un's Structural Prevention Mechanisms Vis-à-vis The New Positive Peace Approach -- The Functioning Of The Ppf And The Dpp Mechanism. By Tuba Turan. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 235-265) And Index.