Professors World Peace Academy

Intro­duc­tion to Decem­ber 2009 IJWP

Realpoli­tik is a term derived from Ger­man. It refers to a pol­i­tics based on prac­ti­cal and mate­r­ial fac­tors rather than on the­o­ret­i­cal or eth­i­cal objec­tives (Merriam-Webster dic­tio­nary). His­tor­i­cally, many polit­i­cal plat­forms have been based on the­o­ret­i­cal, reli­gious, ide­o­log­i­cal, or moral arguments.

Most visions of ideal soci­eties, as dis­parate as Plato, Con­fu­cius, Jesus, and […]

Intro­duc­tion to Sep­tem­ber 2009 IJWP

The mod­ern desire for democ­racy and self-rule is largely a reac­tion against a his­tory of oppres­sion and exploita­tion fol­low­ing mil­i­tary con­quest and imposed rule. World his­tory is pre­dom­i­nantly shaped by con­querors, yet most peo­ple desire to live their own lives and not serve as a means to some­one else’s ends. While self-rule […]

Intro­duc­tion to June 2009 IJWP

Our lead arti­cle by James Yunker sug­gests ways in which global gov­er­nance could be improved, ways that could cre­ate a “more per­fect union” than the League of Nations, or the United Nations, which he com­pares to the Arti­cles of Con­fed­er­a­tion of the United States. This more per­fect union would involve three principles […]

Intro­duc­tion to March 2009 IJWP

This issue con­tains a vari­ety of arti­cles that do not eas­ily coa­lesce around a par­tic­u­lar theme, but all refer to con­tain­ing the vio­lence wreaked by those with power in the pur­suit of self-interested goals, whether they be polit­i­cal, eco­nomic, or reli­gious. This vio­lence might appear in the form of a ruth­less warlord […]

Intro­duc­tion to Decem­ber 2008 IJWP

The arti­cles in this issue all relate to the Mid­dle East region from Pales­tine to Pak­istan. This region is per­haps the most resis­tant to reli­gious plu­ral­ism in the world. War and vio­lence are often the result of the attempt by a reli­gious or eth­nic group to lay claim on an entire state. […]