Toward a Climate of Peace

One of the defining features of Peace Studies is the capacity -- often stimulated by the increasingly problematic nature of modern society -- to foster the emergence of opportunity out of crisis. This proactive sensibility frequently manifests around issues of warfare and violence, where advocates and scholars alike consistently have encouraged a perspective that goes beyond negatory constructions of "anti-war" and "non-violence" toward ones that portend a world in which the structural roots of conflict are supplanted by pro-peace values and practices. Such invocations of "positive peace" have defined the field for decades, and perhaps nowhere are they more germane than around contemporary issues of climate change. Adapted from the source document.