The Contextual Ring of Peace: An Ownviewist Framework for Sustainable and Inclusive Peacebuilding

The Ring of Peace is proposed as a regenerative peace architecture designed to counteract the entrenched “cycle of violence.” While cycles of harm escalate through hurt, hate, and retaliation, the Ring of Peace reorients emotional, relational, and structural dynamics toward connection, restoration, and growth. Building on Ownviewism, which emphasizes contextual interpretation of human experience, this article presents a seven-component design of the Ring of Peace: Dynamics of Change (precondition), Recognition and Regulation (thought), Redistribution (attitude), Intelligence (bridge), Reconnection (action), Reimagination (habit), and Renewal (mindset). Each element transforms the drivers of violence into pathways of sustainable peace, showing that peace is not a passive aftermath of war but an active, parallel system capable of interrupting, absorbing, and replacing harm. By situating the Ring of Peace within diverse contexts—including pastoralist communities, post-conflict societies, and global governance—this article argues that peace can be deliberately engineered as a layered, dynamic structure. Unlike violence, which isolates and fragments, the Ring reconnects and reimagines humanity’s shared future.