Introduction

The Undivided Big Banana

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4960337
AutoresJeffrey M Perl, Jeffrey Perl (0000-0002-0008-7623), Johan M G Van Der Dennen
Año2014
Volumen20
Número3
Páginas412-418
Fecha de publicación2014-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCommon Knowledge (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0961-754X • E-ISSN: 1538-4578
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/0961754x-2732686
OpenAlexW1993637573
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas3

In this introduction to the first installment of the Common Knowledge symposium "Peace by Other Means," the journal's editor questions the assumptions that underwrite standard approaches in the social sciences to the issue of how non-state, tribal societies have dealt with matters of war and peace. He in particular examines and finds wanting the approach that Jared Diamond takes in The World until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (2012). Whereas Diamond's theme is that modern states can learn much about many things from traditional hunter-gatherer societies, with respect to peacemaking and peace-keeping he finds traditional societies distinctly inferior, and the arguments by which he reaches this conclusion are tautological and also beg the question. This prefatory essay explains that "Peace by Other Means" will analyze and detail non-Western and premodern European means of keeping peace that modern theorists of conflict resolution are reluctant to credit or incompetent to assess

Conflict resolution · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Peacemaking · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Theme (computing · Yesterday · Computer Science · Cross-Cultural and Social Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions