“Building a safe and peaceful state”, State of Peace Seminar

Building a Safe and Peaceful State: How to Approach Security and Defense in a New European State is a contribution to the social dialogue on state security and defense. It argues that both existing states and newly created ones, such as Catalonia could become in the future, should deal with conflict from a non-military perspective and forsake armed defense as a pillar of security.
For three years a group of people from various Catalan groups and organizations working in the field of peace have shared thoughts and ideas until they came up with common formulations for the concepts discussed. The State of Peace Seminar, heir to the Pau i Treva group, was created in September 2012 to meet the demands of Catalan social movements dealing with a pro-sovereignty process that intends to be radical in its approach but deeply pacific and democratic in manner.
The book has been published by ICIP as part of the “Tools of Peace, Security and Justice” digital series and is available in PDF and ePub formats.