Assistant Proffesor of International Relations, Allame Tabatabaei University
Abstract
Before the Islamic revolution, theories of revolution for overthrowing the governments were focusing mostly on violent methods, while the Islamic revolution was base on unity of the people. The Islamic revolution of Iran as a civilizing revolution, besides introducing the cognition of Islam and its intellectual logics to natioans, was able to plan and introduce its roles and aims, considering features such as anti-colonialism, supporting the oppressed and self-reliance, against international peace. This revolution besides providing a meta-narrative and metadiscourse based on the ideas as justice, dependence and freedom which all rooted in ontological approach and Islamic beliefes and sprituality, was able to establish positive peace which infact means establishing a socio-human system. This system included the lack of use of force, individual liberty and social equality as three main features. The question arrises here is how can Islamic revolution expand positive peace? The hypothesis to be reviewd in this article is that the Islamic revolution due to its inherent characteristic, which will be reviewd later, would led to positive peace. Therefore by reviewing the main features of Islamic revolution and definition of positive peace the author is trying to prove the theory.
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