国際学習過程としての平和研究-新しいメタ・パラダイムの提唱-

「平和研究」-その方法と課題-

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If peace is to be defined positively as an antithesis to peacelessness and structual violence, it follows tht peace research must be pluralistic in its value orientation and in its paradigms since each human group has the right to define what peace means to it and an to choose its specific way to fight against peacelessness.
Therefore peace research must not remain universalistic and global oriented. It must rather start with the values, problems and strategies on the local (grassroot) level and try to relate them pointing out their interdependence and complementarity.
Various paradigms developed or yet to be found must be combined so as to enable peace research to play this catalitic role. The present study analyses various paradigms, from grassroot conscientization paradigm to the preferential modeling paradigm on the global level. The paradigms must be selected and related to each other according to a metaparadigm; a guiding principle according to which peace research organizes its paradigms. This principle should emphacise the fact that peace research is collective research, transdisciplinary and transacademic, linking values, theories an actions on the local, national, regional, and international levels.