ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the origins of Peace Research, the means of projection via the journals and a survey of its substantive concerns, the author surveys a set of issues that not only emanates the enterprise, but also draws in appropriate issues from similarly critical sources, effectively to give us the outline of a continuing agenda of study. Peace Researchers reject the nuclear paradigm in particular and the Strategic Studies paradigm in general. More specifically, there is a rejection of the very notions that the weapons and threats can deter. The quality that has made 'modern man' modern is our control of the environment. The concerns of Peace Research necessarily involve a consideration of the cultures of war and the cultures of peace. Order is the primary goal and questions of change, future and long-term consequences are relegated to the status of secondary or tertiary importance. This stance will increasingly prove to be unsustainable and counterproductive.
