Definitions
Peace: Peace is defined in two senses: Positive Peace and Negative Peace. Positive peace refers to the absence of structural violence, which includes exploitation, hunger, malnutrition, corruption, and so on. On the other hand, negative peace is defined as the absence of direct violence like interstate war, civil war, and injury (Galtung 1969).
Governance: Governance refers to “the exercise of authority to implement rules and policies in an effort to bring order to social, political, economic, and judicial processes that allow a society to develop” (Snodderly 2011).
Introduction
Peace is a holistic phenomenon and need to comprehend from different perspectives. Erasmus said so long ago that “peace is the mother and nurse of all that is good for humanity” (Gittings 2015). Human society has passed through three stages of knowledge. August Comte, one of the founding fathers of...
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Islam, M.J. (2018). Peace and Governance. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_1973-1
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