How is peace defined? Can peace only be achieved by non-violent means? How effective are peace-making operations and can external intervention lead to peaceful settlements? Can UN troops ever be neutral? Is external intervention always biased? Should peace be given priority over justice? Does the pursuit of justice in conflict situations lead to prolonging of the violence and thereby hinder the pursuit of peace?

Global Peace: Ethical and Political Issues provides readers with the analytical tools to better understand the suppositions that underlie the debates about such questions, as well as advances its own reasoned and informed ethical analyses of these topics. The book engages different normative approaches from the fields of ethics, political theory, law and international relations and uses them to examine a set of international case studies on the subjects of pacifism, transitional justice, peace settlements and external intervention.