Peace and Democracy

Does Democracy Cause Peace?

The idea that democratic states have not fought and are not likely to fight interstate wars against each other runs counter to the realist and neorealist theoretical traditions that have dominated the field of international politics. Since the mid-1970s, the generation of new data and the development of superior analytical techniques have enabled evaluators of the idea to generate impressive em...

Education for democracy, dialogue and peace

In this era of globalization, higher education is under pressure to respond to market demand of the knowledge economy if it has to remain relevant. This contrasts with sustained demand for intellectual leadership in social and political challenges characterized new forms of violence that call for relevant response from the academia. My contribution will briefly introduce the conventional wisdom...

Democracy and Peace: General Law or Limited Phenomenon?

Recent empirical International Relations research suggests that democracies, in general, are uniquely paci c. The strongest statistical results, however, have been obtained from datasets that violate the assumptions of the statistical models typically used in estimation. The most widely cited democratic peace studies, moreover, arbitrarily categorize relatively continuous democracy measures and...

Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute

Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute At least since 1750 when Baron de Montesquieu declared "peace is the natural effect of trade," a number of economists and political scientists espoused the notion that trade among nations leads to peace. Employing resources wisely to produce one commodity rather than employing them inefficiently to produce another is the foundation for c...

Decentralized Governance for Democracy, Peace, Development and Effective Service Delivery