Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution

The Need for Transdisciplinarity

Bibliographic Data

ID2394752
AuthorsJohan Galtung (TRANSCEND: A Network for Peace and Development, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume47
Issue1
Pages20-32
Publication date2010-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTranscultural Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1363-4615 • E-ISSN: 1461-7471
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1363461510362041
PMID20511249
OpenAlexW2133308237
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited1

Peace studies seeks to understand the negation of violence through conflict transformation, cooperation and harmony by drawing from many disciplines, including psychology, sociology and anthropology, political science, economics, international relations, international law and history. This raises the problem of the complementarity, coexistence and integration of different systems of knowledge. In fact, all of the human and social sciences are products of the post-Westphalian state system and so reify the state and its internal and international system and focus on this as the main source of political conflict. Conflicts, however, can arise from other distinctions involving gender, generation, race, class and so on. To contribute to peace building and conflict resolution, the social sciences must be globalized, developing theories that address conflicts at the levels of interpersonal interaction ( micro), within countries ( meso), between nations ( macro ), and between whole regions or civilizations ( mega). Psychiatry and the "psy" disciplines can contribute to peace building and conflict resolution through understanding the interactions between processes at each of these levels and the mental health or illness of individuals

Conflict resolution · Conflict transformation · Epistemology · International relations · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Structural violence · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Law · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Psychiatric care and mental health services

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