Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: What is peace in a contemporary context where wars of conquest unravel the postcolonial international order? What is peace when societies still await reparation for the enslavement of their populations and the colonial violence endured? What is peace when the rationality of government targets its violence against racialised bodies? Each question alludes to both lived experience and institutions, highlighting the experience of injury and the institutions that are implicated and potentially responsive to its repair. This International Peace Lecture puts forward the argument that to think critically about the concept of peace it must work as a politically viable concept, so that it becomes indistinguishable from the concept of justice, not as a product, but co-constitutively related. Struggle – symbolic, material, and political – comes to be core to the concept, redefined and reshaped so that it emerges as a politics of presence enacted symbolically and materially by and through the subject of politics.
Source: Peacebuilding
Author: Vivienne Jabri
Institution: King's College London
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Award: G3740632034
OpenAlex ID: W4412640361