Hearing Peace

Dieter Senghaas, professor emeritus of international relations, University of Bremen, was one of most innovative contemporary German social scientists, with major contributions on peace and development research and on music and peace. He was awarded many prizes: the International Peace Research Award (1987), Göttingen Peace Prize (1999), Culture and Peace Prize of the Villa Ichon in Bremen (2006), and the Leopold-Kohr Prize of the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research (2010).

• Part I: Overture.- Chapter 1. Making Peace Audible and Aesthetically Grounding It – Quasi una fantasia.- Part II:  Modulations.- Chapter 2. Peace: What Are We Talking About?.- Chapter 3. How to Set Peace to Notes?.- Chapter 4. ‘Sound the Alarm, Gather Your Friends!’ Peace in the Music of Today.- Part III: Finale – Variations.- Chapter 5. Seismographic Recollection of the Future: Karl Amadeus Hartmann.- Chapter 6. Sounds of Peace – More than a Utopia: Isang Yun.- Chapter 7. Dona nobis pacem – a Lasting Demand: Arthur Honegger.- Chapter 8. Stubbornly Contemporary, Not Entertaining: Reflections of a Social Scientist on Political Aspects of Klaus Huber’s Musical Works.- Part IV: On Dieter Senghaas.- Chapter 9. The Author’s Biographical Notes.- Chapter 10. The Author’s Relevant Publications:  A Selective Bibliography Until 2024.- Appendix.- On HGB Foundation.- On the Author.