Jourdain, Edouard
Penser La Paix Les Communs
"Why do so many peacebuilding efforts fail? In this rigorous and committed work, Édouard Jourdain begins with a personal shock: a postdoctoral researcher at the École Polytechnique on February 24, 2022, he saw the predictive models he had been working on collapse on the very day Russia invaded Ukraine. A PhD in political science and a lecturer at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest, he questions the ways we think about war and peaceand argues that our tools suffer not from a lack of data, but from a lack of forms of collective intelligence. This is where the notion of the commons comes into play, drawing on the work of Elinor Ostrom and tested in concrete experiences such as Rwanda's gacaca community courts, the confederal system of Rojava, and the governance of the International Space Station. A book addressed as much to specialists as to citizens seeking to understand why peace cannot simply be decreedit must be built.