ミッション志向科学としての平和研究-医学との比較を手がかりにして-

「平和研究」-その方法と課題-

抄録

The key concept of peace research has split as a result of the recent development of the research itself which is being reorganized within the new paradigm of structural violence. However, the peace research under the overkill nuclear threat should be still focused on the prevention of war as the most important problem of the research itself. Thus, it seems to be the imminent task of theoretical peace researchers that they could successfully contribute to the revolutionary development of peace theory by the complete integration of the both trends of research, one to prevent manifest war and the other to minimize potential structural violence. Comparison of peace studies with medical science as a mission-oriented science would be the first prerequisite for finding out reorganization strategy of peace research along the above line towards integration because illuminations of similarities and differences between peace research and medical research would surely contribute to the meta-theoretical clarification of logicalstructure of peace research, in particular, as well as that of mission-oriented science, in general.
This paper tried to compare the peace studies with medical studies along the following two lines. The first line of comparison focused on the logical and semantic linkage structure of peace studies with medical studies, such as normative character, degree of scientific maturity or phenomenological mode of expression in diagnosis and treatment. The second line of comparison focused on the mutual difference of present institutional settings between both studies and resultant difference of applicability of research findings also between the both.
In the conclusion of the paper, a new concept of applied science was systematically introduced into peace studies. Of course, such concept originally came from the Anatol Rapoport's creative new idea of new applied science as a mode of transmission of universal understanding of logical structure to informed people. However, the paper went further to propse more universal thinking for the same logical structure also to become applicable to the medical science as a mode of transmission of the endogenetic curability of desease in the biological system and tried to expose the necessity of revolution of western medical science from the theoretical viewpoint of peace research as a science for survival of mankind. Thus, the paper also explicate a new possibility of reorganization of medical science itself as a science for survival of each individual.