B. Pandora' Latour’s scientific contributions

... Both violence and peace involve not only subjects and objects statically living in a certain context that is defined by social, political, and economic structures, but these subjects and objects interact with each other within these societal structures, and it is precisely the characteristic of their interactions that will define the violent or peaceful nature of their relations among themselves and towards others. While the relational aspect of peace has been implicitly recognized in the works of some peace researchers such as John Paul Lederach (2005) in The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace where he emphasizes the role of human creativity and empathy for ethical reflection and action and some contemporary philosophers such as Judith Butler (2003) and Paul Ricoeur (2005) who study the role of mutual recognition and gratitude in human relationships, as well as Bruno Latour (1999) who in Pandorra's Hope asserts that we fundamentally change our being through connecting with other people and even objects, it was only Mark Nelson who defined peace as "a set of positive, prosocial behaviors that maximize mutually beneficial positive outcomes resulting from interactions with others" (Guadagno et al., 2018;Nelson, 2019). Focusing on the interactions taking place within a network is thus key to better understanding how peaceful and violent behaviors manifest into peaceful or violent relationships at all levels, reaching from individuals to groups, to nations, and to the international community at large. ...

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“Doing Peace”: Conceptualizing relational peace through interactions and networks in a digitalized world