CPG ́s Peace and Security Academy March 20–29, 2023, Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand jointly organized bythe German–Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG), the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSS), Bangkok/Laos Office, and the Asian Governance Foundation (AGF) The Academy The provision of peace and security is the fundamental objective of statehood and international order. As much as peace and security unquestionably form the primary and most precious goal of any political order, they are inescapably challenged by a broad phalanx of threats. To maintain and restore peace and security on the local, national, and international level therefore lies at the core of statecraft and remains one of the most consequential subjects of political–, legal–, historical–, psychological–, sociological–, and military studies. While the Cold War era brought about a great interest in the conceptual foundations of the peace and security layer of statecraft,⋯
