Development with sustainable-engendered peace: a challenge during the anthropocene

Abstract

This chapter examines the evolution of the peace concept from its understanding as a negative concept towards a positive, structural, sustainable, and engendered peace. The concept of a ‘sustainable-engendered peace’ refers to the structural factors related to long-term violence, deeply embedded in the patriarchal system and characterized by authoritarianism, exclusion, discrimination, exploitation and violence. This dominant social structure affects values such as equity, equality and justice, and often even threatens the survival of individuals and social groups. Further, this dominant system has also concentrated the wealth of earth within a small group of oligarchs who manage multinational enterprises.