There has been an ongoing debate on the effectiveness of quantitative analysis in social science. Particularly, the methodological controversy in International Relations (IR) is much more intense than other social sciences because IR scholars tend to emphasize abstract concepts such as power, war, and peace, which are hard to be quantified.
In this session, we focus on the measure of peace. There are various concepts regarding peace, including ‘negative peace’ and ‘positive peace.’ we will summarize and evaluate each peace concept. In addition, we will examine the benefits and limits of the several peace indexes and discuss whether big data analysis needs to be considered as a complimentary tool to develop the peace index. We will also deal with several cases of the peaceful relationship between countries through these methods.