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Title:- Rethinking World Peace in Uncertain Democracies
Abstract:
Globally changing political rules, European rivalries, democratic movements, weak institutions, technological influences, and threats to world peace all create a multitude of problems for the democracy and peace process. The author conducts the comparative documentary assessment of the reports of 2026 made by the Economist Intelligence Unit, Freedom House, Varieties of Democracy Institute, and Institute for Economics and Peace aimed at finding the links among democracy, good government, and world peace. The theoretical basis for the research includes the works of I. Kant "Perpetual Peace", W. Wilson "Fourteen Points", Dr. B. R. Ambedkar about constitutional democracy, Amartya Sen's capabilities approach, R. Dahl's polyarchy, J. Rawls's "Justice as Fairness", UN Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and HWPL’s "Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW)". Using qualitative comparison methods and systematic document examination, the study illustrates that existing democracy and peace indicators largely evaluate democracy, civil liberties, and peace as separate entities and not together as part of a governance ecosystem. This separation causes analytical and policy blind spots in case of fragile or crisis-hit democracies facing internal unrest or external aggression. To solve this problem, the research presents a "Democratic War Governance Framework" aimed at maintaining democratic values in conditions of armed conflict and severe destabilization. Through the utilization of qualitative comparative techniques and systematic document review, the research presents the view that existing democracy and peace indicators assess democracy, civil liberties and peace as separate entities and not as parts of the governance ecosystem. The separateness of these entities leads to gaps in analysis and policy-making when fragile or crisis-affected democracies experience internal instability or external aggression. The research presents the model of the “Democratic War Governance Framework” to help maintain democratic principles during periods of armed conflict and severe destabilization.