Abstract
With the Call “Conflict theories and philosophies of peace. 100 years after Georg Simmel’s Der Konflikt der modernen Kultur”, we have aimed at reopening a discussion regarding conflict and peace in a comparison between the Simmelian theory of conflict and other theories of conflict and philosophies of peace, and to, ultimately, establish its heuristic reach in explaining conflicts of various natures, both those that are traditional and well-known and those that are new, from everyday conflicts to those that are social or cultural, and through to armed conflicts.