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This article explores the peacebuilding potential of the environment beyond "environmental problems" from the perspective of two interactive & interacting paradigms: peace studies & environmental studies. A thorough investigation reveals ontological, axiological, epistemological, rhetorical & methodological overlaps; interdependencies; conflicts &; potential synergism from their "interaction." It suggests a theoretical framework, broad & integrative enough to allow a full understanding, functionally as well as philosophically, of the inherent capacities of the environment to inform & sustain peace. The new paradigm, inspired by the idea of environmental peacemaking, is called Peace Ecology. Figures, References. Adapted from the source document.

THE AUTHOR SURVEYS THE PEACE MOVEMENT IN ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND IN TERMS OF ITS CONTRIBUTION TO FUTURE PERSPECTIVES IN BUILDING GLOBAL PEACE. THE VIEW THAT, IN THE LAST YEARS OF THE 20TH CENTURY, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS WILL PLAY A MORE CRUCIAL PART IN DETERMINING MANKIND'S DESTINY UNDERLIES MUCH OF HIS ANALYSIS. HIS ASSESSMENT ALSO INCLUDES AN EXAMINATION OF WHY PEACE MOVEMENTS FAIL.