Titled “Analysis of post-liberal peacethesis: Critical appraisal of liberal peace thesis from religious peaceperspectives,” the research seeks to unfold how Buddhism and Islam critiqueliberal peace. The core components of liberal peace are human rights based onindividual liberty and freedom, the capitalist economy, liberal democracy, thestrong central government. The problem is that while originated in Westernpolitical-economic contexts, liberal peace has been universalized and imposedupon non-Western contexts. As illustrated in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., liberalpeace had mixed results. Post-liberal peace seeks to develop acritical appraisal of liberal peace from non-Western perspectives to build a hybridpeace thesis. The research has explicated a holistic peace thesis from Buddhistand Islamic perspectives. One of the problems with liberal peace isthat it is socio-political and economic oriented peace, failing to develophuman inner aspects of peace. Besides, liberal peace has been underpinned by thebelief in the ontological divide between the West and the non-West andepistemological superiority of the former over the latter. This has led to thefailure of the Western intellectual and policy fields to explicate how theliberal West enacts self-critique and transformation as part of peace. Buddhistand Islamic critical appraisals have allowed this research to propose holisticpeace thesis that integrates inner peace, human rights based on the teaching offundamental human dignity, dialogical democracy augmented by reflectiveself-awareness and mindfulness, economic system that aims to achieve basichuman needs and spiritual maturity, and the enactment of self-critique of theliberal West and their self-transformation. Though this research suggests aspeculative-hypothetical position moving into theoretical development of peace,a holistic peace thesis could allow the ‘West’ and ‘Buddhism’ and ‘Islam’ todevelop further dialogue to jointly explore a more humane and sustainablefuture and co create more concrete intellectual and practical paths for arobust, comprehensive theory of peace that is effective for real worldco-existence today. Regarding the research achievement, three peer-reviewedpapers have been published from Journal of the Philosophy and ReligionSociety of Thailand, Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences,and Social Ethics Society Journal of Applied Philosophy. Details of theresearch achievement will be presented below.

本研究は人権、民主主義、資本主義経済を軸とする西洋型リベラルな平和論を批判的に考察し、西洋と非西洋の考え方を融合させたポストリベラルな平和論の構築を行った。特に仏教から批判的考察を展開させた平和論を構築した。心の研究と実践を重視する仏教の視点から、心の平和の重要性を示した。仏教と人権の親和性を示すとともに、間主観的ダイナミズムと内的ダイナミズムを融合させた熟議型民主主義論を展開させた。物質的豊かさを中心とする資本主義経済を批判的に考察し、基本的欲求の充足と精神的豊かさを目的とする経済モデルを示した。更に、従来の西洋＝平和構築者、非西洋＝リベラルな平和論の追従者という二元論的関係性を批判し、西洋の自己批判と変容の不可欠性を展開させた。これらを踏まえて、人間の内面的平和、人権、間主観性と内面性を融合させた熟議型民主主義、精神的成長とsocial capitalの発展を中心とした経済、西洋の自己変容を融合させたホリスティック平和論を提唱した。研究成果について、Journal of the Philosophy and Religion Society of ThailandとSocial Ethics Society Journal of Applied Philosophyから論文を掲載するとともに、The 5th Politics and Culture Conference: Grassroots Philosophies in the Philippines、I International Conference on Peace Research、The 14th Social Ethics Society Conference and First CJC-SES Joint International Conferenceなどの国際学会で研究発表した。