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When scholars committed to peace and conflict research first began consciously separating themselves from the older discipline of international relations, particularly during the period of explosive development of new institutions and working groups in the late fifties and early sixties, much time was spent trying to figure out the logical basis for an essentially intuitive revolt against the “International Relations (IR) Establishment.” Intuitions of a new way of thinking have a way of leaping out of the existing fields of one’s conceptual structures, leaving the mind with the task of reorganizing cognitive maps. In the course of cognitive reorganization that followed on the initial intuitive leap, peace researchers elaborated so many different ways of mapping the peace research field that they acquired a somewhat illusory sense of working in an intellectual movement of enormous diversity in terms of conceptualizations and substantive interests.
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This text was first published as: “Peace Research: Dialectics and Development”, Journal of Conflict Resolution 16(4): 469–475, December, 1972. Copyright © 1972 by SAGE Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications, Inc.
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See Philip Everts’ article “Developments and Trends in Peace and Conflict Research, 1965–1971: A Survey of Institutions” of this issue, Journal of Conflict Resolution December, 1972 16(4):477–510. Other authors with articles in the same issue who are cited in this paragraph include: Berenice A. Carroll, “Peace Research: The Cult of Power” (pp. 585–616); Asbjørn Eide, “Dialogue and Confrontation in Europe” (pp. 511–522); Yassin El-Ayouty, “Peace Research and the United Nations: A Role for the World Organization” (pp. 539–553); Michael Stohl and Mary Chamberlain, “Alternative Futures for Peace Research” (pp. 523–530); Raymond Tanter, “The Policy Relevance of Models in World Politics” (pp. 555–583); and Dee R. Wernette, “Creating Institutions for Applying Peace Research” (pp. 531–538).
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Editor’s note: in 2001 COPRED merged with the Peace Studies Association to form the Peace and Justice Studies Association.
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Boulding, J.R. (2017). Peace Research: Dialectics and Development (1972). In: Boulding, J. (eds) Elise Boulding: Writings on Peace Research, Peacemaking, and the Future. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30987-3_2
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