Approaches to Understanding Sustainable Peace

Qualitative Causal Loop Diagrams and Quantitative Mathematical Models

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3755493
AutoresLarry S Liebovitch (0000-0002-8842-163X, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Flushing, NY, USA, autor de correspondencia), Peter T Coleman (0000-0002-6337-745X, Columbia University, New York, NY USA), Joshua Fisher (0000-0003-1054-3132, Columbia University, New York, NY USA)
Año2020
Volumen64
Número2
Páginas123-144
Fecha de publicación2020-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764219859618
OpenAlexW2954275239
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas17

Scholarly research on peace has overwhelmingly focused on negative peace, or the absence of conflict, aggression, violence, and war. We seek to understand holistic peace systems, the political, economic, and social systems that sustain peaceful societies. We show how two methods can help us understand the properties and dynamics of such complex peace systems. Each method provides insights from different perspectives to help understand sustaining peace. The causal loop diagram helps us to identify the peace factors and the connections between them. The mathematical model helps us determine the quantitative results of the interactions between all the peace factors. Using these methods, we found that there is no single "leverage" factor that is the lynchpin in creating sustainable peace. Rather, the small effects of a large number of positive peace factors that support peace can collectively overcome the stronger emotional response to the negative conflict factors that jeopardize peace

Aggression · Causal loop diagram · Leverage (statistics) · Peace and conflict studies · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Ecology · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence