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Exploring a Christian Just Peace Theory in the Context of the Korean Peninsula: Focusing on Understandings of Justice and Peace in Glen Stassen, Tobias Winright, and Ham Seok-heon

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2023, (57), pp.197-235
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology
  • Received : November 15, 2023
  • Accepted : December 12, 2023
  • Published : December 31, 2023

Kim, Jong Hwa 1

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ABSTRACT

Glen Stassen and other Christian ethicists proposed the just peacemaking initiative about 30 years ago, but the initiative has failed to fully account for non-Western societies where Christianity is not a dominant religion, thus inevitably relying on different religious, cultural, and philosophical traditions. However, given that every just peacemaking is historical and contextual as well as theoretical (and theological), the paper explores a reconstructed model of just peacemaking, especially in the context of the Korean Peninsula. For this purpose, after comparatively analyzing the just peace theories of Stassen, Winright, and Ham, this paper offers the five key values―indigenous, grassroots, ecological, cosmopolitan, and restorative. This reconstructed just peacemaking intends to demand a holistic approach in which cosmopolitan grassroots agents awaken their identities and subjectivities to restore their communities from broken relationships in harmony and symbiosis with others.

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