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Educators treat peace as a supreme universal value. The founding fathers of UNESCO had the merit of reflecting it in its Constitution, pointing out that peace must be founded, if it is not to fail, upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind. Building bridges for peace demands a great variety of activities for strengthening dialogue and trust and finding the best modalities for conflict resolution. Academic solidarity can bring its valuable contribution to making genuine peace a reality during the irreversible process of globalization. Academics should offer visions of positive alternatives and realistic solutions, as well as sound inspiration for strategies to deal with global issues and to combat planetary vulnerability. Education for peace is a responsible, humanistic process which aims to give peace a chance. There is a UNESCO Appeal to develop a worldwide Network called Global Mega University Net (GMUNET) to promote mutual understanding and academic solidarity and explore ways andmeans of cooperation between mega-universities. The university volunteers concept is based on the belief that through the very nature of their activities and endeavours academics are driven by the spirit of academic solidarity and are ready to contribute to finding solutions to global issues facing the world today. Universities are strongly invited to stand in academic solidarity with other academic institutions throughout the world, as well as in their own country. Programmes for peace education, conflict resolution, human rights and democracy, should be supported by academic institutions and by public and private donors. In the spirit of academic solidarity universities are invited to take specific action to support institutions of higher education in the least developed parts of the world and in regions suffering the effects of conflict or natural disasters. There are reasons to expect a strong display of academic solidarity after the tragic natural disasters in Asia on December 26, 2004. The assistance in the academic ...

Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (ZeFKo) is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for theory based and methodically reflected studies from many different fields of research focusing on violence, conflict war and peace. A main goal is to stimulate interdisciplinary debates in the area of peace and conflict research. This includes ethnology, geography, history, culturural and literaterary studies, pedagogy , philosophy, political science, psychology, law, sociology, theology and natural sciences as well.

Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (ZeFKo) is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for theory based and methodically reflected studies from many different fields of research focusing on violence, conflict war and peace. A main goal is to stimulate interdisciplinary debates in the area of peace and conflict research. This includes ethnology, geography, history, culturural and literaterary studies, pedagogy , philosophy, political science, psychology, law, sociology, theology and natural sciences as well.

Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (ZeFKo) is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for theory based and methodically reflected studies from many different fields of research focusing on violence, conflict war and peace. A main goal is to stimulate interdisciplinary debates in the area of peace and conflict research. This includes ethnology, geography, history, culturural and literaterary studies, pedagogy , philosophy, political science, psychology, law, sociology, theology and natural sciences as well.

Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (ZeFKo) is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for theory based and methodically reflected studies from many different fields of research focusing on violence, conflict war and peace. A main goal is to stimulate interdisciplinary debates in the area of peace and conflict research. This includes ethnology, geography, history, culturural and literaterary studies, pedagogy , philosophy, political science, psychology, law, sociology, theology and natural sciences as well.

Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (ZeFKo) is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for theory based and methodically reflected studies from many different fields of research focusing on violence, conflict war and peace. A main goal is to stimulate interdisciplinary debates in the area of peace and conflict research. This includes ethnology, geography, history, culturural and literaterary studies, pedagogy , philosophy, political science, psychology, law, sociology, theology and natural sciences as well.

Only by addressing the suffering on all sides can we understand what is happening – and what can come next.

Ensuring internal security is one of the core objectives of European integration in the context of the establishment of an area of freedom, security and justice of the European Union (E.U.). The aim of the internal security policy of the E.U. is to support Member States with regard to the maintenance of law and order and the safeguarding of internal security. In the last 20 years in the area of internal security of the E.U. many important initiatives, political agendas and legal instruments at the E.U. level have arisen. This article aims to show the development of the internal security policy of the E.U., its most important guidelines and the challenges in the coming years.

A 'positive' (analytical-descriptive) approach to the study of the peace-development relationship is con trasted to a value-oriented (normative) one. It is argued that both approaches are fruitful and that much can be gained from reconciling the two rather than making a too strong distinction between them. This facilitates a problem-oriented and solution-oriented research. Three elements are identified as necesssary in problem-oriented research: the analysis of the problem, the exploration of alternatives, and the identification of social carriers of alternative development. Pre liminary analysis indicates that 'mainstream' models of development (i.e. growth and modernization models) create internal and external conflicts that breed and feed the arms race. Consequently, the basic argument is that the proposed causal link between disarmament and development — the former creating the latter — should be reversed: Rather than to conceive of disarmament as a condition for development, one would argue that development — that is development of another kind — is a condition for disarmament. The main carriers of another development in present-day industrial countries — carriers, that is, of 'counterpoint' ideas and values — are the 'post-materialist' movements such as the environmental, women's liberation, peace, and ethnic and linguistic movements. In the Third World, there are other, but corresponding, forces which favour another development.

Enthält Rezensionen von: Sobek, David: The causes of war. - Cambridge : Polity Press, 2008 + Collier, Paul: Wars, guns and votes : democracy in dangerous places. - London : The Bodley Head, 2009 + Potts, Malcolm ; Hayden, Thomas: Sex and war : how biology explains warfare and terrorism and offers a path to a safer world. - New York/N.Y. : BenBella Books, 2008