When Never Again Fails: War, Blocked Correction, and the Political Economy of Peace
Abstract
This paper asks how organized violence remains politically and materially sustainable when its human consequences are extensively documented, and what would enable societies to interrupt that reproduction. It brings the Viable Freedom and monetary-correction papers into dialogue with earlier work on Gaza, historical memory, war and economic conversion. Its central hypothesis concerns asymmetric institutional corrigibility: organizations may adapt effectively to threats to military capability, political authority or financial continuity while providing weaker routes for correcting the harms imposed on civilians. Gaza is the central case, situated within occupation, Palestinian self-determination, unequal power and differentiated legal responsibilities. Documentary illustrations distinguish repairs from dependable provision, financial stabilization from economic agency, and diplomatic commitments from credible protection. Competing explanations include genuine security threats, commitment problems, fragmented command, administrative incapacity and political disagreement. The normative sequence remains LIFE → VIABLE FREEDOM → CORRIGIBILITY. The ethic of no wound denied and no wound enthroned joins recognition and repair to universal protection without equalizing responsibility or making forgiveness a condition of rights. The paper proposes concurrent work on immediate protection, constraints on harmful conduct, material alternatives, accountable political agency and correction of successor institutions. Brief comparisons with Ukraine, Sudan and Colombia identify questions for transfer rather than equivalent conflicts or validated solutions. The contribution is an integrative argument and a testable programme for conflict transformation and non-repetition, not an exhaustive causal theory or an empirically validated peace plan.
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BibTeX
@misc{sahely2026when,
title = {{When Never Again Fails: War, Blocked Correction, and the Political Economy of Peace}},
author = {Bichara Sahely},
howpublished = {Zenodo},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23512214},
url = {https://zenodo.org/records/23512214},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - When Never Again Fails: War, Blocked Correction, and the Political Economy of Peace
AU - Bichara Sahely
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/20
PB - Zenodo
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.23512214
UR - https://zenodo.org/records/23512214
AB - This paper asks how organized violence remains politically and materially sustainable when its human consequences are extensively documented, and what would enable societies to interrupt that reproduction. It brings the Viable Freedom and monetary-correction papers into dialogue with earlier work on Gaza, historical memory, war and economic conversion. Its central hypothesis concerns asymmetric institutional corrigibility: organizations may adapt effectively to threats to military capability, political authority or financial continuity while providing weaker routes for correcting the harms imposed on civilians. Gaza is the central case, situated within occupation, Palestinian self-determination, unequal power and differentiated legal responsibilities. Documentary illustrations distinguish repairs from dependable provision, financial stabilization from economic agency, and diplomatic commitments from credible protection. Competing explanations include genuine security threats, commitment problems, fragmented command, administrative incapacity and political disagreement. The normative sequence remains LIFE → VIABLE FREEDOM → CORRIGIBILITY. The ethic of no wound denied and no wound enthroned joins recognition and repair to universal protection without equalizing responsibility or making forgiveness a condition of rights. The paper proposes concurrent work on immediate protection, constraints on harmful conduct, material alternatives, accountable political agency and correction of successor institutions. Brief comparisons with Ukraine, Sudan and Colombia identify questions for transfer rather than equivalent conflicts or validated solutions. The contribution is an integrative argument and a testable programme for conflict transformation and non-repetition, not an exhaustive causal theory or an empirically validated peace plan.
ER -