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Vor 30 Jahren startete Hans Küng sein "Projekt Weltethos" mit der Forderung nach einem alle Menschen umfassenden Grundkonsens über gemeinsame Werte und Massstäbe. Das wurde von zahlreichen Intellektuellen unterstützt in "Ja zum Weltethos" und nochmals von Küng in "Weltethos für Weltpolitik und Weltwirtschaft" konkretisiert. In vorliegendem Sammelband ziehen 17 Wissenschaftler ein Resumé und fragen nach einem grundlegenden und verbindenden Weltethos in den Bereichen der Wirtschaft, Politik, Ökologie, Demokratie, Religion, Digitalisierung und Klimaforschung. - Ein breit gefächertes, aktuelles Buch, in dem die Autoren pointiert Stellung beziehen zu aktuellen Problemen unserer Gesellschaftsordnung und ihre Zukunftsvision für eine bessere Weltordnung zur Diskussion stellen

"This book focuses on the reporting of human rights in broadly defined times of conflict. It brings together scholarly and professional perspectives on the role of the media in constructing human rights and peacebuilding options in conflict and post-conflict environments, drawing on case studies from Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. It also provides critical reflections on the challenges faced by journalists and explores the implications of constructing human rights and peacebuilding options in their day-to-day professional activities. The chapters embrace a variety of theoretical, empirical and methodological approaches and will benefit students, scholars and media professionals alike"--Back cover

Conflicts and violence, repression and oppression have always been part of the world, resulting in situations where no one really wins and leading to stalemates that cause the degradation of economic order - and of the human condition. Whether conflicts can be won or not, the human cost must be addressed when building a lasting peace, and this role falls now to our future leaders and followers. In Peace, Reconciliation and Social Justice Leadership in the 21st Century, expert contributors explore the ways in which leaders and followers can bring forth pacifism, peace building, nonviolence, forgiveness and social cooperation. The chapters focus on the role of positive public policies on the national and international order, and the role leadership and followership plays in harmonizing differences and personifying space. They include lessons learned from post-conflict societies in Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chile, and others to remind us all that peace is a collective endeavour where no one can take a back seat. Bringing together leading scholars and practitioners from the worlds of leadership, followership, transitional justice, and international law, this research provides a blueprint of how people-led, bottom-up, grassroots efforts can foster reconciliation and a more peaceful world

Der Entstehung des modernen humanitären Völkerrechts liegt der Wunsch zugrunde, die schlimmsten Auswirkungen des Krieges zu begrenzen. Doch nicht selten konterkarieren unbeabsichtigte Folgen das Unterfangen. Anschaulich verbindet die Autorin historische Erzählung und quantitative Analyse, stellt so Veränderungen in der Praxis des humanitären Völkerrechts anhand von vergangenen und gegenwärtigen zwischenstaatlichen Kriegen und Bürgerkriegen dar und widerlegt Mythen über Krieg und Frieden, Staatlichkeit und Sezession. Sie plädiert dafür, die künftige Rechtssetzung des humanitären Völkerrechts auf eine breitere Wissensgrundlage über konkrete Praktiken zu stellen und angesichts historisch geänderter Konfliktarten – von der Seeblockade des 19. Jahrhunderts zum Cyberwar heutiger Provenienz – die Schutzfunktion dieses Rechts, vor allem auch für die Zivilbevölkerung, deutlich zu verbessern.

Long considered a subfield of international relations and political science, Peace Studies has solidified its place as an interdisciplinary field in its own right with a canon, degree programs, journals, conferences, and courses taught on the subject. Internationally renowned centers offering programs on Peace and Conflict Studies can be found on every continent. Almost all of the scholars working in the field, however, are united by an aspiration: attaining Peace, whether "positive" or "negative." The telos of peace, however, itself remains undefined and elusive, notwithstanding the violence committed in its name. This edited volume critically interrogates the field of peace studies, considering its assumptions, teleologies, canons, influence, enmeshments with power structures, biases, and normative ends. We highlight four interrelated tendencies in peace studies: hypostasis (strong essentializing tendencies), teleology (its imagined "end"), normativity (the set of often utopian and Eurocentric discourses that guide it), and enterprise (the attempt to undertake large projects, often ones of social engineering to attain this end). The chapters in this volume reveal these tendencies while offering new paths to escape them.

"This book charts ideas European intellectuals (mostly from Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy) put forward to solve the problem of war during the first half of the 20th century: a period that began with the Anglo-Boer war and that ended with the explosion of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Such ideas do not belong to a homogeneous tradition of thought, but can be understood as a unique discourse that takes different characteristics according to the point of view of each author and of the specific historical situation."

For decades a bitter civil war between the Colombia government and armed insurgent groups tore apart Colombian society. After protracted negotiations in Havana, a peace agreement was accepted by the Colombian government and the FARC rebel group in 2016. This volume will provide academics and practitioners throughout the world with critical analyses regarding what we know generally about the post-war peace building process and how this can be applied to the specifics of the Colombian case to assist in the design and implementation of post-war peace building programs and policies. This unique group of Colombian and international scholars comment on critical aspects of the peace process in Colombia, transitional justice mechanisms, the role of state and non-state actors at the national and local levels, and examine what the Colombian case reveals about traditional theories and approaches to peace and transitional justice.

What has become of Israel's peace movement? In the early 1980s, it was a major political force, bringing hundreds of thousands onto the streets; but since then, its importance has declined amid spiralling violence. Now, and especially since the second Intifada of 2000–5, the 'doves' of the Israel/Palestine conflict struggle to be heard over its 'hawks', and the days of mass mobilisation are over. Doves Among Hawks charts the successes and failures of a beleaguered peace movement, from its formation after the Six-Day War to the current security-obsessed climate, where Israel's 'doves' seem to be fighting a lost and outdated battle. Samy Cohen's history of a peace process that once took on the Israeli settler movements exposes how that cause has been derailed and demoralised by suicide attacks. But the peace movement isn't dead—it has simply transformed. From human rights monitors to lobbies of the bereaved, Cohen reveals a multitude of smaller, grassroots organisations that have emerged with unexpected energy. These lawyers, doctors, army reservists, former diplomats and senior security personnel are the unsung heroes of his story.

The idea of a theory of peace -- Conditions for the abolition of war -- The roles of innate impulses and learned moral beliefs in individual and group violence -- Socially sanctioned group violence : features, examples, and sources -- Ritual cannibalism : a case study of socially sanctioned group violence -- Sanctioned violence, morality, and cultural evolution -- Appendix : the debate on the existence of cannibalism.

Introduction : assembling exclusive expertise : knowledge, ignorance and conflict resolution in the Global South / Anna Leander and Ole Waever -- Who knows Nigeria? : reflections on conflict expertise and knowledge generation in peacebuilding practice / Linda Bishai -- Experts in an adventure with pirates : a story of Somali piracy expertise / Christian Bueger -- From expert to expertise : Frederik van Zyl Slabbert's imaginary and negotiations in South Africa / Peter Vale and Vineet Thakur -- Worlding conflict resolution and mediation expertise in the Global South / Pinar Bilgin -- Stabilizing crises : assembling NATO Defense College expertise about Libya and Ukraine / Trine Villumsen Berling -- The "Singapore School" and the contested entreprise of terrorism / See Seng Tan -- Bodies count : the politics of assembling war and violent death data expertise / Keith Krause -- SanctionsApp as expertise (and exclusionary ignorance) in a global policy setting / Thomas Biersteker -- Conflict knowledge, big data and the emergence of emergence / David Chandler -- Art as expertise? : creative expression in the Syrian conflict resolution / Anna Leander and Donatella della Ratta