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Despite advances in political governance, international law, and economic cooperation, global violence, human rights violations, and large-scale conflict continue to persist. Conventional peace strategies rely predominantly on deterrence, control, and post-conflict regulation, often failing to address the psychological mechanisms that generate violence. This work proposes a comprehensive framework that conceptualizes peace as a psychological outcome emerging from fear reduction, protection of human dignity, and restructuring of predictive reward systems that motivate aggressive behaviour.
The Predictive Pleasure Framework integrates insights from psychology, neuroscience, human rights theory, law, and peace studies to explain how violence arises when fear, insecurity, humiliation, and unmet psychological needs dominate individual and collective decision-making