Strategies for institutionalizing peace
Institutionalizing peace means striving for peace-making through the creation of sustainable structures for achieving global peace or positive peace. Peace-making means creating social institutional cohesion and empowering governments and societies to establish sustainable and legitimate peace. This requires strategic planning with the goal of creating a long-term commitment to the rule of law and the peace-making process, assisting in the reconstruction and capacity-building of government and civil institutions, creating basic infrastructure for peace, and strengthening good governance. All members of the global community, including nation-states, international organizations, local organizations, civil institutions, and all citizens as main actors participating in peace-making, must strengthen the economic and political infrastructure to create a framework for maintaining sustainable peace in the long term.
By Mohammad Reza Dehshiri
Scholar
In this regard, creating peace-making structures to promote sustainable peace requires encouraging civil participation for human development, strengthening comprehensive peace education through formal and informal methods, integrating peace values into the educational system, and supporting indigenous and endogenous capacities for peace management and conflict resolution. Peace education is the process of acquiring knowledge, attitudes, skills, and behaviors for living in harmony with others and with the natural environment. Peace education for building peace in post-conflict situations aims to reduce economic, social, and ethnic polarization, institutionalize peaceful coexistence, and create conditions for sustainable peace, and strengthen the culture of dialogue.
Peace education is essential in that it emphasizes the need for peaceful conflict resolution and promotes universal values based on human dignity, preventing the occurrence of conflicts and disputes.
In conclusion, it should be noted that the institutionalization of peace is achieved in the light of justice, as just peace is based on positive peace, but also encompasses cultural elements within its framework. Such institutional peace, meaning the institutionalization of peace and the creation of a legal foundation for sustainable peace, leads to systemic development that promotes values, norms, and peace culture for all countries, societies, and individuals, based on the principles of coexistence and interdependence of the global community.
Peace-seekers, in order to establish just peace, must not only understand how to resolve misunderstandings between political and economic groups but also minimize potential cultural conflicts that may threaten human societies. It is only then that the combined efforts of governments and civil society will lead to the creation of a legal foundation for sustainable peace and the institutionalization of peace culture.