Imperfect peace: New friendly quarrels

Abstract

In this article a constructive criticism is made to the concept of imperfect peace developed by Professor Francisco A. Muñoz. We intend to point out the main flaws of a concept whose hegemonic narrative is more related to the charisma of Francisco A. Muñoz than to the development of that concept, whose obviousness, imperfection has become a value of peace. The three main deficiencies of the concept of this author have to do with the denial of the figure of Johan Galtung and positive peace; the conceptual imprecision and the perpetuation of the status quo. Said concept - not an analytical category - part of all situations in which the maximum possible peace is achieved according to social conditions, because if we accept imperfect peace we accept a certain level of injustice and reject utopia as an engine of transformation and social neutralization.

Keywords

• estudios de la paz
• investigación para la paz
• paz
• paz imperfecta y paz neutra