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In this chapter Peter Wallensteen deals with the formation of the peace research agenda during the past hundred years. The choice of topics is seen as a result of real world experiences. They come in the form of traumas, such as World Wars and nuclear weapons, or hopes, such as the forming of international organizations or the use of non-violent change. These events result in different agendas for different peace research milieus. The chapter also links this to philosophical thinking on peace and war, going back to Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas More.
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Wallensteen, Peter 2011. “The Origins of Contemporary Peace Research”, in Höglund, Kristine and Magnus Öberg (eds) 2011. Understanding Peace Research. Methods and Challenges. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 14–32. Reproduced with permission. It is an updated version of Wallensteen, Peter 1988 “The Origins of Peace Research”, in Wallensteen, P. (ed), Peace Research: Achievements and Challenges, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 7–30.
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See the 1982 special issue of Journal of Peace Research. Vol. 19 No 2.
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Wallensteen, P. (2021). The Origins of Contemporary Peace Research. In: Peter Wallensteen: A Pioneer in Making Peace Researchable. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62848-2_4
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