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This chapter presents a brief history of China, Japan, and Korea with an emphasis on peace and reconciliation. This is followed by a discussion of definitions of peace and reconciliation from participants from these regions to the Personal and Institutional Rights to Aggression and Peace Survey. The most common type (49 %) of definition of peace focused on the prerequisites and outcomes of positive peace (a peace characterized by social justice and equality), whereas 38 % of the responses focused on negative peace (e.g., absence of war, conflict). Sixty-five percent of the definitions of reconciliation equated it with a process rather than an end state or achievement. Exploratory chi-square analyses for types of definitions revealed a few differences based on demographic characteristics such as gender, military service, having a relative in the military, and having participated in antiwar protest activity.
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Murata, A., Murata, M., Shahane, A., Jones-Rooy, A., Kim, H.MS. (2013). Definition of Peace and Reconciliation in China, Japan, and Korea. In: Malley-Morrison, K., Mercurio, A., Twose, G. (eds) International Handbook of Peace and Reconciliation. Peace Psychology Book Series, vol 7. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5933-0_10
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