At the Building Peace cross-disciplinary study day, the theme of peace-building is explored from the perspective of several disciplines and areas of research. The speakers are renowned specialists in their fields. Among them are Pierre Musso, Jan Houben both former Fellows of the Institute.
In order to have the necessary hindsight for each scientific reflection, they focus on ‘the past’: from distant antiquities (European and others) to the recent past.
The contributions shed new light on well-known and lesser-known pacifist thinkers from France and elsewhere, including Saint-Simon and the Saint-Simonians, theories of war as inevitable but to be contained, conditions and efforts for peace in nineteenth-century Europe, pre-modern and modern China, ancient Mesopotamia and ancient India.
