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Comment: Peace in West Asia.

  • UPSC 1994
  • 20 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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Johan Galtung distinguished negative peace, the absence of war, from positive peace, the removal of the structural violence that produces war. West Asia has rarely had even the first. In 1994 it seemed closer to both than at any time since 1948. Three decades later, a Gaza ceasefire coexists with war on Iran.

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  • The moment of 1994
  • Why peace has proved elusive
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