Ekkehardt Krippendorff walks the high road of peace research. His book, State and War, is a contribution to the grand task of abolishing war as an institution. He argues that states and the military are twins, created for the same purpose: breeding war and violence against each other's and their...

An important task in peace research has always been and will always be the exploration of the concept of peace. The approach taken to this in the present article is to see the concept of peace in the light of the social cosmology of various civilizations, roughly spanning the classical...

This article introduces a concept of `cultural violence', and can be seen as a follow-up of the author's introduction of the concept of `structural violence' over 20 years ago (Galtung, 1969). `Cultural violence' is defined here as any aspect of a culture that can be used to legitimize violence...

This article take as its point of departure the cur rent situation of Korea: a nation divided into states with different systems, tied to the two blocs in several ways, and the July 4 1972 communiqué where leaders of the two Koreas express a desire to move towards reunification of the two coun...

The theory of peace developed in the book Co operation in Europe is used to evaluate the present state of affairs in East-West relations in Europe as well as future prospects.The major argument is that peace has a struc ture, and that structure has not yet been built be tween East and West in...