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The Initiative for the Study of a Stable Peace (ISSP) is a community of scholars dedicated to studying peace and conflict transformation through the lens of mainline political economy.
ISSP work is inspired by Kenneth E. Boulding. In Stable Peace (1978), Boulding noted that “peace has been regarded as a utopian, unattainable, perhaps dull ideal … over which we have no control” (ix-x). In contrast, he believed that peace was not only obtainable but an object of choice, and he sought to understand the conditions and circumstances under which a stable peace—a “situation in which the probability of war is so small that it does not really enter into the calculations of any of the people involved” (p. 13)—might emerge and sustain. The ISSP embraces Boulding’s challenge to research and decipher the nuances of stable peace in its varying and dynamic forms within the broader war-peace system.
To learn more about ISSP visit: stablepeace.com
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The Initiative for the Study of a Stable Peace (ISSP) is a community of scholars dedicated to studying peace and conflict transformation through the lens of mainline political economy.
ISSP work is inspired by Kenneth E. Boulding. In Stable Peace (1978), Boulding noted that “peace has been regarded as a utopian, unattainable, perhaps dull ideal … over which we have no control” (ix-x). In contrast, he believed that peace was not only obtainable but an object of choice, and he sought to understand the conditions and circumstances under which a stable peace—a “situation in which the probability of war is so small that it does not really enter into the calculations of any of the people involved” (p. 13)—might emerge and sustain. The ISSP embraces Boulding’s challenge to research and decipher the nuances of stable peace in its varying and dynamic forms within the broader war-peace system.
To learn more about ISSP visit: stablepeace.com
Stay Connected
Email: hayekprogram@mercatus.gmu.edu
facebook.com/HayekProgram
twitter.com/HayekProgram
mercatus.org/hayekprogram
