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Peace through Cooperation or Peace through Strength? How to Achieve Peace in the Very Intractable Conflict Society
Frieden durch Kooperation oder Frieden durch Stärke? Wie Frieden in einer renitenten Konfliktgesellschaft erreicht werden kann
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Abstract The Korean War, having started on June 25, 1950, has never formally ended. As the two Koreas are technically still at war, the conflict on the Korean Peninsula has become intractable. The goal of this study is to explore the attitudes of South Koreans living in the intractable conflict about how to ... view more
The Korean War, having started on June 25, 1950, has never formally ended. As the two Koreas are technically still at war, the conflict on the Korean Peninsula has become intractable. The goal of this study is to explore the attitudes of South Koreans living in the intractable conflict about how to achieve peace. To fulfill this goal, we conducted a nation-wide survey to investigate attitudes toward militant and cooperative internationalism. We also measured various variables involved with the intractable conflict. Our results indicate that the value of international harmony and equality as well as attitudes toward peace are the best predictors of cooperative internationalism, while the value of international harmony and equality as well as the attitudes toward war were the strongest predictors of militant internationalism. Our results also suggest that the tendency to regard inter-Korean relations as zero-sum relations and the attitudes toward peace mediated the relationship between international harmony and cooperative internationalism, while the zero-sum perception and attitudes toward war on the Korean Peninsula mediated the same value factor and the cooperative internationalism. Possible implications are discussed.... view less
Keywords
South Korea; North Korea; conflict management; peace process; Korean War; attitude; public opinion; psychological factors
Classification
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
Peace on the Korean Peninsula; intractable conflict; peace psychology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 269-292
Journal
Historical Social Research, 44 (2019) 4
Issue topic
Social Integration or Mind Integration? An Alternative Approach for the Unification of Divided Systems
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed