Research
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Peace as Practice: Nonviolence Training
The research and design logic behind short, repeatable practice for nonviolent perception, reflection and choice.
Peaceful World · Research
Research for a more peaceful world
Evidence reviews, essays and educational analysis on peace, violence, culture and peace literacy. We make the corpus easier to find without pretending that every public essay is a peer-reviewed academic paper.
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Research & essays
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Available in both EN + RU
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Foundational resources
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Research & essays
Public research, evidence reviews and educational analysis developed by Peaceful World.
Research
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Can the World Become More Peaceful — and What Actually Works?
A broad evidence review of factors associated with lower violence, stronger institutions, nonviolent action and peace-building capacity.
Research
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Positive and Negative Peace
An explainer on two influential ways of thinking about peace, their uses, limits and implications for measurement.
Research
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The Pedagogical Promethean Gap
Why technological power can grow faster than the human capacities needed to use it responsibly — and what peace literacy has to do with that gap.
Research
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Hiroshima and the Failure of Peace Education
An essay on technical competence, moral responsibility, dehumanization and what Hiroshima asks of peace education.
Research
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Peace Literacy and Peace Education
A working distinction between learning about peace and developing practical capacities for living and acting more peacefully.
Research
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The School That Enters the Feed
A year-round spiral curriculum model for peace literacy delivered through social media and repeated microlearning.
Research
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The Pedagogical Value of the Peace Literacy Course
The pedagogical rationale behind the 42-lesson course and the wider open learning architecture around the Blueprint.
Research
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The Peace-Education Vacuum in the Post-Soviet Space
A historical and institutional analysis of why peace education remained marginal across much of the post-Soviet space.
Research
EN
Global Mortality Rates from Violence and Homicides
A comparative analysis of mortality from homicide, armed conflict, terrorism and other forms of lethal violence, with explicit data limitations.
Research
EN
Cultural Balance
A working framework for examining how visible culture normalizes violence and how stronger peace-oriented narratives might restore balance.
Research
RU
Peace as Architecture, Not a Slogan
A systems-level essay presenting peace as an architecture linking ethics, education, culture, institutions and nonviolence.
Research
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The Seville Statement on Violence: 40 Years Later
A contemporary review of what the 1986 statement argued, what later evidence clarified and why its central conclusion still matters for education.
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Earlier essays
Earlier public work kept available as the research library develops and editorial standards evolve.
Archive
RU
Ahimsa: Nonviolence Across Religious and Philosophical Traditions
An earlier comparative essay on ahimsa, non-harm and related ethical traditions across religions and secular philosophy.
Archive
RU
Study of the Peaceful World Manifesto
An earlier analytical reading of the Manifesto and its proposed architecture of nonviolent civilization.
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Foundational & source resources
Documents that inform the research library but are not presented as original Peaceful World research articles.
Resource
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The Seville Statement on Violence
A multilingual source edition of the 1986 scientific statement rejecting the idea that war is biologically inevitable.
Resource
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Peaceful World Blueprint Manifesto
The open foundational framework around which Peaceful World develops peace-literacy materials, lessons and practices.
Research practice
How to read this library
Peaceful World publishes its research openly. Some pieces review evidence, some are analytical essays and some document our own educational models. We revise pages when better evidence or clearer framing becomes available.
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Source-grounded
Important factual claims should be traceable to sources, with uncertainty and limitations stated where they matter.
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Human-reviewed
AI may assist research, structure and language, but responsibility for publication and interpretation remains human.
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Only verified language versions
When a verified public version exists in only one language, the catalogue says so instead of pointing to an assumed translation.
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Open to correction
Research is useful when it can be challenged, corrected and improved rather than protected as a finished doctrine.
Research is a continuing function
This catalogue is meant to stay current as new work is published, translated or revised. Historical publication milestones are tracked separately in Peaceful World History.