Titled “Analysis of post-liberal peace thesis: Critical appraisal of liberal peace thesis from religious peace perspectives,” the research seeks to unfold how Buddhism and Islam critique liberal peace. The core components of liberal peace are human rights based on individual liberty and freedom, the capitalist economy, liberal democracy, the strong central government. The problem is that while originated in Western political-economic contexts, liberal peace has been universalized and imposed upon non-Western contexts. As illustrated in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., liberal peace had mixed results.

Post-liberal peace seeks to develop a critical appraisal of liberal peace from non-Western perspectives to build a hybrid peace thesis. The research has explicated a holistic peace thesis from Buddhist and Islamic perspectives.

One of the problems with liberal peace is that it is socio-political and economic oriented peace, failing to develop human inner aspects of peace. Besides, liberal peace has been underpinned by the belief in the ontological divide between the West and the non-West and epistemological superiority of the former over the latter. This has led to the failure of the Western intellectual and policy fields to explicate how the liberal West enacts self-critique and transformation as part of peace. Buddhist and Islamic critical appraisals have allowed this research to propose holistic peace thesis that integrates inner peace, human rights based on the teaching of fundamental human dignity, dialogical democracy augmented by reflective self-awareness and mindfulness, economic system that aims to achieve basic human needs and spiritual maturity, and the enactment of self-critique of the liberal West and their self-transformation. Though this research suggests a speculative-hypothetical position moving into theoretical development of peace, a holistic peace thesis could allow the ‘West’ and ‘Buddhism’ and ‘Islam’ to develop further dialogue to jointly explore a more humane and sustainable future and co create more concrete intellectual and practical paths for a robust, comprehensive theory of peace that is effective for real world co-existence today. Regarding the research achievement, three peer-reviewed papers have been published from Journal of the Philosophy and Religion Society of Thailand, Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences, and Social Ethics Society Journal of Applied Philosophy. Details of the research achievement will be presented below.