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'Just peace', just peace - what peace? The US and Russia's conceptual approaches to peace and conflict settlement

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Bakalova, Evgeniya
Jüngling, Konstanze

Corporate Editor
Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Abstract

In theoretical terms 'peace' remains a largely contested concept. Academics propose competing definitions and conceptualizations, which possess their own normative and analytical advantages or disadvantages. Yet despite heated academic and theoretical debates, studies looking at the empirical unders... view more

In theoretical terms 'peace' remains a largely contested concept. Academics propose competing definitions and conceptualizations, which possess their own normative and analytical advantages or disadvantages. Yet despite heated academic and theoretical debates, studies looking at the empirical understandings of peace and conflict-settlement strategies of different states are largely missing. The paper set out to cover this gap and ask how similarities and differences in the actors' conceptual understandings of peace play themselves out in their agreement and disagreement over the advocated 'peace strategies'. Employing qualitative/ quantitative content analysis of the statements made by the representatives of the Russian Federation and the United States at the UN Security Council, Evgeniya Bakalova and Konstanze Jüngling analyze the debates around four recent and/ or ongoing conflicts (Georgia 2008, Libya 2011, Syria 2011-2014 and Ukraine 2014). The study reveals that while agreement over the conceptualization of peace does not impede further disagreement as to the advocated peace strategies, disagreement at the conceptual level breeds deeper disagreement.... view less

Keywords
conflict strategy; peace policy; Georgia; Russia; Ukraine; crisis communication; UN Security Council; Syria; United States of America; peace research; military conflict; conflict management; Libya

Classification
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy

Document language
English

Publication Year
2014

City
Frankfurt am Main

Page/Pages
30 p.

Series
PRIF Working Papers, 22

Status
Published Version; reviewed

Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications


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