CONCEPT OF

PEACE AND
DEVELOPMENT
Lecture 1
A.Y. 2022-2023
CONCEPT OF
PEACE AND
DEVELOPMENT
Lecture 1
A.Y. 2022-2023
 Understanding Peace and Development

Peace and Development as Human

Security
Peace as Precondition to Sustainable
Development
Peace as ‘Absence of Violence’

Outline Development as ‘Freedom’

 Conflict and
Development
Analysis (CDA)
Activity 1

Water Access

System Mismanagement

Marriage

Transgender Discrimination
Understanding Peace and Development | Lecture 1

Hettne (1983) and Sørensen’s (1985) ‘Another Development’ defines development:

“as need-oriented, endogenous, self-reliant, ecologically

sound, and based on structural transformation”
Understanding Peace and Development | Lecture 1
Understanding Peace and Development | Lecture 1

The Global South and UN Peace Operations. Information retrieved from https://igarape.org.br/the-global-south-and-un-peace-operations.
Understanding Peace and Development | Lecture 1

Philippine Nationhood
Concept of Development in the
Philippines
- Empowerment
- Decolonization
- Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Peace and Development as Human Security | Lecture 1

‘the problems of economic

development and prosperity,
social order and liberty, and
international relations and war are
… closely interdependent (Weede,
1996).’
Peace and Development as Human Security | Lecture 1

PRINCIPLES
Peace and Development as Human Security | Lecture 1
Peace and Development as Human Security | Lecture 1

Agree or DisAgree:

“In the absence of development, there can be no sustained

peace, and without peace, there can be no development”
Peace as Precondition to Sustainable Development | Lecture 1

Rethinking peace in terms of the structural

conditions – such as are associated with the
development agenda – that enable it.
Activity 2: My Vision of Peace and
Development

- Envision/imagine your community

- Write your word/concept associations of peace and development.
These associations may be a word or two, i.e., Justice
Peace and Development as Human Security | Lecture 1
Peace and Development as Human Security | Lecture 1

ICG observed, the “economic conflict,” which has intensified over the past several years, has
exacerbated the political and humanitarian crisis in Yemen
Peace as Precondition to Sustainable Development | Lecture 1
Peace as Precondition to Sustainable Development | Lecture 1
-GALTUNG’S ‘PEACE’ (AS THE
ABSENCE OF VIOLENCE)

-SEN’S ‘DEVELOPMENT’ (AS

FREEDOM)
PEACE
Peace as Absence of Violence | Lecture 1

Johan Galtung

Peace and Violence Dualism

Speaks more of structures

than agents (Boulding, 1977;
Patomäki, 2001).

Norwegian sociologist who is the principal founder of the discipline of

peace and conflict studies
Peace as Absence of Violence | Lecture 1
DEVELOPMENT

Development Studies
Critical Theses to Development
Development Practice
“Unfolding of a culture;
realizing the code or CULTURE
cosmology of that
culture”
“As economic
growth and
development,
but at nobody's
expense”
“Progressive
satisfaction of the
needs of human and
non-human nature,
starting with those
most in need”
development as misery-abolition same as peace as war-abolition
Development as Freedom | Lecture 1

Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the
United Kingdom and the United States

Amartya Sen

Development is not so much

something that can be done to others,
but is instead something that people
do for themselves.

Development as ‘freedom’, both the

means (how to attain) as well as the
ends (the goal) of development.
Development as Freedom | Lecture 1

Instrumental Freedoms:
- economic opportunities

- political freedoms

- social opportunities

- transparency guarantees

- protective security

Liberal institutions as the best means to deliver well-being

Sen’s development Galtung’s absence
as freedom of violence

Peace and development as the goal and

process of expanding and enhancing
people’s freedoms and opportunities