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Dynamics of Violence Structure in Northeast Asia

  • Religions of Korea
  • 2022, 51(), pp.7~55
  • DOI : 10.37860/krel.2022.02.51.7
  • Publisher : The Research Center of Religions
  • Research Area : Humanities > Religious Studies
  • Received : January 12, 2022
  • Accepted : February 10, 2022
  • Published : February 15, 2022

Kim, HakJae 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article examines the dynamic structure of violence in Northeast Asia from three perspectives. The first is the security dilemma perspective, the second is the perspective of peace research, and the third is the perspective of multilayered-cleavage structure approach. This article contends that the structure of violence in Northeast Asia could be understood omprehensively by compromising all three approaches. Each of the three approaches suggested ways to resolve the structure of violence, the first approach suggests regional nuclear deterrence, nuclear disarmament, and nuclear non-proliferation negotiations, the second, peace study approaches suggest resolving territorial and historical conflicts between East Asian countries, and the third multi-layered cleavage structure approach presents joint efforts for climate change, sustainable economic interdependence, and politics that can resolve internal and external cleavages as solutions.. Next, more specifically, the short-term task of peace process on the Korean Peninsula was reviewed. First, I propose to build a peace regime including territories, denuclearization, and peace agreements to raise the level of peace, followed by political regime change for coexistence, coalition, and multi-party systems to resolve political conflicts, and finally to prepare for ecological transformation. The proposals for a virtuous cycle of peace-political-economic triple regime will serve as the basis for integration and regeneration between/within inter-korean society by resolving conflicts in political and economic relations between countries by understanding the complexity and multi-layeredness of peace in Northeast Asia.

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