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Beginning from the models developed by the leading peace scholar Johan Galtung, this chapter not only raises the question of peace itself as a right, but also proposes fresh ways to approach peace studies from a cultural rights perspective, and in turn relate these to conceptions of holistic development. It does so by expounding a social model of peace and conflict drawing on the sociology of development as well as broader themes in development studies. These deepen by initiating a model of what it calls “memory work” and the psychological and cultural roots of violence and conflict. It explores the relationship between more “objective” causes of conflict and forces arising from culture and social memory, and explores these through a number of case studies and examples. It discusses a number of issues rarely raised in conventional development studies including the role of fear and other emotions, the manipulation of history, and new forces that produce new forms of exclusion and violence.
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Clammer, J. (2019). The Right to Peace? Cultural Values, Peace and Conflict Resolution. In: Cultural Rights and Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2811-4_7
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