I would like the professor to talk more about religious conflict in Southest Asia if possible.
Is peace a right reserved to all people or just a specific culture?
Can such a thing as global positive peace (everyone gets what they want) exist? Do we need to settle for global negative peace? (fear from fear)
We all hear about the clash of civilizations, is it a myth or a real life issue? Could it be the key to a global peace rather than a global conflict?
What is the relationship between security and peace?
I would be more interested to know more about how individuals or churches could participate in building peace especially againist structural violence.
What about the role nation state institutions role in peace buidling?
Although there are different levels solve different types of violence, there seems to be a favor toward top down remedies. What are the benefits of grassroot remedies against violence over top level remedies?
PEACEBUIDLING INITIATIVES
I always feel culture is not an easy thing to change and often conflicts that arise due to culture have effects that are a little bit hard to resolve. How can we make it easier to have peace originating from culture without compromising the cultural beliefs?
What are the current effects of peace building movement? Is this a phenomenon? How effective and confident peace activists against the violence and conflicts increasing nowadays in terms of international relations based on Realism?
How can you measure peace? Is it by statistics? if yes, how? And based on what?
I am a counselling psychologist, with keen interest in peace psychology and multiculturalism.As a professional trained in empathy skills along with skills for problem solving, communication, etc. how can we ensure transformative peace building through individual and group interventions? There is no work happening on these lines among the psychologists in my country :(
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