Environmental Conflicts as a New Dimension of Peace Research (資源管理をめぐる紛争の予防と解決)

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Szell, Gyorgy
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	Introduction Modern peace research as it started in the 1960s – after Johan Galtung 2 founded the first Peace Research Institute in Oslo in 1959 – focussed around the classical subjects of interstate warfare, overshadowed by the East-West-Conflict, the Cold War. Masatsugu Matsuo (2001) points rightly out that with Johan Galtung’s article on structural violence in 1969 an enlargement of the scope of peace research took place. For sure there has been an overextension of this scope to include nearly everything in life, although Johan Galtung himself never succumbed himself to this tendency. I agree with Matsuo, as he argues that the issue over environmental conflicts has to be taken within the narrower, or let us say, traditional concept of peace research as they touch the very core of international, interstate as well as intrastate violent conflicts, although we should also consider those issues, which take into account the structural dimension too. Because there is a problem, which we cannot understand or explain with common sense, we need science, we need research, which is in general funded by society. So, the starting point is: Why are there environmental conflicts? But before I proceed further I propose to introduce a definition of environmental conflicts: Environmental conflicts are those conflicts, which have as origin the control of natural resources. We should for the further analysis differentiate as in peace and conflict research in general between the following levels: • International, global • Interstate • Intrastate.
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