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The sole objective of my work was to contribute to the analysis and the development of architecture for sustainable peacebuilding. My research was influenced by the work of Karl Deutsch on system analysis and model-thinking. Deutsch used cybernetics and the application of dynamic models to study economic, social and political problems, known as wicked problems. Peacebuilding can be a wicked experience. Coherent peacebuilding demands good time management and the creation of a synergy between peacebuilding efforts in different domains, at different levels and layers of the conflict.
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Ceadel (1987) distinguishes five attitudes towards war: militarism (war is a positive good), crusading (it is legitimate to use war to promote order or justice), defencism (only defensive war is acceptable), pacificism (war should be abolished, but some defensive wars can be justified), and absolute pacifism (the absolute view that participating in or supporting war is always impermissible.
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Reychler, L., Langer, A. (2020). Introduction to the Selected Texts. In: Reychler, L., Langer, A. (eds) Luc Reychler: A Pioneer in Sustainable Peacebuilding Architecture. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40208-2_3
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