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PACIFIST APPROACHES TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION: AN OVERVIEW OF PRAGMATIC PACIFISM

Associate Professor of International Relations and Foreign Policy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Doctor of International Relations, International Politics and Conflict Resolution, University of Coimbra. His research interests are concentrated in the area of Peace and Conflict Studies and Critical Security Studies, with particular emphasis on the following themes: peace operations, criticism of liberal peace, conflict transformation, political economy of "new wars", strategic non-violent action, theory of securitisation, critical theory of international relations, civil conflict in Somalia, links between foreign policy, security and defence in Brazil.

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This article explores pragmatic pacifist approaches to conflict resolution, i.e. the aspects that justify pacifist norms based on its strategic effectiveness and not on actors’ belief systems. The article initially proposes a conceptualisation of pacifism and non-violence, seeking to show how these concepts interrelate and how they integrate in the field of conflict resolution. From this conceptual basis, the article focuses on the examination of pragmatic pacifist approaches, highlighting their theoretical base, their techniques and methods of action, as well as the major future challenges of research agendas on the theme.

O artigo explora as abordagens pacifistas à resolução de conflitos, dentro da sua vertente pragmática, isto é, dentro da vertente que justifica a norma pacifista com base na sua eficácia estratégica e não no sistema de crenças dos atores. O artigo propõe, inicialmente, uma conceptualização do pacifismo e da não-violência, procurando destacar de que forma esses conceitos se interrelacionam e de que modo eles se integram ao campo da resolução de conflitos. Partindo dessa base conceptual, o artigo concentra-se no exame das abordagens pacifistas pragmáticas, destacando as suas bases teóricas, as suas técnicas e métodos de ação e os principais desafios futuros dessa agenda de investigação.

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Non-violencePacifist conflict resolutionPeople powerPragmatic pacifism

Não-violênciaPacifismo pragmáticoPoder das pessoasResolução pacífica de conflitos

Como citar este artigo

Oliveira, Gilberto Carvalho (2016). “Pacifist approaches to conflict resolution: an overview of pragmatic pacifism”. JANUS.NET e-journal of International Relations, Vol. 7, Nº. 1, May-October 2016. Consulted [online] on the date of last consultation, http://hdl.handle.net/11144/2619

Article received on 26 January, 2016 and accepted for publication on 15 February, 2016