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This chapter introduces the section of the International Handbook on Peace and Reconciliation that focuses on definitions of peace and reconciliation. It begins by stressing the importance of a greater concern with peace and reconciliation and considers twentieth efforts at peace and reconciliation. It describes Johan Galtung’s conceptualization of positive peace and negative peace, constructs that are reflected in the majority of our sample’s definitions of peace. The major portion of this chapter focuses on the coding systems for definitions of peace and reconciliation developed for this international project using grounded theory methods to analyze definitional responses to items on the Personal and Institutional Rights to Aggression and Peace Survey. This chapter ends with an overview of the structure of the other chapters in this section and a consideration of the implications of this project for understanding peace and reconciliation and with a quote from Nelson Mandela.
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- Peace Survey
- Institutional Rights
- Positive Peace
- Group On International Perspectives On Governmental Aggression And Peace (GIPGAP)
- Major Coding Categories
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Claggett-Borne, E. (2013). Definitions of Peace and Reconciliation. 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_2
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