Peace

Abstract

There is a long history of radical peace organising around the world, and indeed by geographers, who since 1891 have been arguing that “peace should not be the peace of death”. Feminist pacifist Jane Addams argued in 1899 that peace was not merely the end of war, but that “positive ideals of peace” are built day to day by “the people” even in the midst of war. The various manifestos for more of a focus on peace in geography are mixed in terms of their reference to its importance for radical and critical geography. Recent literature in geographies of peace widely agrees that peace is a precarious and ongoing spatial process that varies across time, place, and scale. Positive peaces can include justice, solidarity, care, wellbeing, dignity-a great many of the yeses that radical geography cares about.