Format

The format for this scientific meeting is ternary: in one hand, a series of lectures related with general aspects of Peace Research, given by outstanding researchers; on the other hand, a set of invited contributions performed by prestigious historians, devoted to the development of the Concept of Imperfect Peace from History; and last but not least, a communication group open to various disciplines always in the dialogue and debate of Imperfect Peace.

Objectives

The objective of this event is to contribute to the debate and dialogue on the development of one of the most productive concepts generated at the Peace Research in the last years the Imperfect Peace, coined by the historian, academic and researcher Francisco A. Muñoz Muñoz.

Through the development of the concept of Imperfect Peace, Francisco A. Muñoz addressed the main concepts of peace research, under that huge umbrella that is the ontological turn and epistemological turn. The first one shows us a humanized human being, paradoxical, capable, and deprived of essences: the human being that is neither violent nor pacific on nature, that owns abilities both for the pacific and violent conflict management… Therefore, essences give place to categories. We, the human kind, have been and are historical, contingent and mutable. Regarding the second one, if we are concerned by peace, we should research the peace, make it an analyze category and look at it from a transdisciplinar perspective.

Thus, it comes a matrix with five linked referents:

• A positive, open, subtle and dialogical consideration of conflicts, seeing those as a difference in projects, in nuances, between different human entities.
• The imperfect and systemic peace: unfinished, continuously on build, a responsibility of all of us, evolving and paradoxical, as it lives along with violence.
• The critic to the violence. This turn should let us situate the peace in the center of our concerns, practices and researches, without forgetting violence.
• The importance of mediation as topos, places, and as a word enriched by its dialogical quality.
• The power and pacifist empowerment. A pacifist and pacific conception of power present in all human being. El poder y el empoderamiento pacifista. Una concepción pacifista y pacífica del poder y presente en todas las entidades humanas.