![]() ![]() ![]() Firstly, early Christian pacifists designated war as a cataclysmic phenomenon that constitutes the opposite of ‘peace’ and is knowable through science. This thesis documents these three processes of war’s construction as a governance problem. Using archival material, I show that war was constructed as a problem in three interlocking processes that rendered it undesirable but calculable and, therefore, ultimately governable. How problems of international politics are constructed matters because such processes determine what a problem is and how it has to be resolved. I argue that for policy to be oriented towards prevention, war needed to be constructed as a problem of international governance. This thesis grapples with how the notion of war as preventable became dominant in international discourse. War and conflict were seen as inevitable, justifiable and productive for centuries, yet today conflict prevention is a core item on the agendas of major international actors. ![]()
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