Trans-Modalities of Peace Through the Humanities: Institutionalising Contemporary Pathways of Belief

Abstract

Issues related to conflicts and crises are likely to be subjects of the humanities and social sciences. A culture of peace is a scientific culture that builds peace through both conceptual and empirical tools. Consequently, security and peace are human constructs in the short, medium, and long term, and the humanities can address them through approaches that resolve issues of cohesion and coherence within the contingencies of categories and divisions among communities, societies, and all societal processes. The research therefore asks, “How can the sciences in general, and particularly the humanities and social sciences, interrogate the contingencies of peace in the deconstruction of processes that undermine peace in the minds of people?” Within each of the humanities, examining the “trajectories of conviction” of theories allows us to identify, from a shared perspective, epistemological orientations for each variable of social action capable of fostering representations, attitudes, and behaviors that build peace within communities, nations, and so on.