Peace Research as `International' - in What Sense

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ID10149751
AuthorsHelena Rytövuori (University of Tampere, corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume27
Issue3
Pages273-289
Publication date1990-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Peace Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0022343390027003004
OpenAlexW2161781316
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited17

The article presents the notion of peace research, as exemplified by Johan Galtung, as a cognitive movement from the ideational to the anthropo-centric conception. In its anthropo-centric conception, the notion displays a variation in which the progress of man is outlined as a telic process of the mind (as opposed to the genetic process of nature); a process whereby man is able to make choices and direct his own development. In the post-World War II decades, the anthropo-centric concern for progress through mind is actualized as a problem of formation of mental attitude. It is further anticipated that in peace research this movement, in the sense of the cognitive process of research (not in focus here), outlines an idea of the mind-in-progress which is an idea of the moral man. Finally, the author points out an alternative direction to the anthropo-centric critique of the ideational conception in terms of which, according to the thesis of the article, the cognitive movement of peace research largely makes itself understood

Cognition · Cognitive science · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Process (computing · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Indian History and Philosophy · Neuroscience · Peace and Human Rights Education · Philosophy · Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification

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