This paper engages with ancient spiritual wisdom, theology, philosophy, and modern science, with the view to produce the contours of a conceptual and theoretical framework of a Natural Law of Peace. An understanding of peace as completion-coherence-integrity-wholeness-perfection is elucidated based on insights derived from the Hebrew concept of shalom (spirituality). This understanding is further engaged with through the lens of the Thomistic transcendentals (philosophy) and systematised with reference to holon theory (science). This enables a conceptual merging, pointing towards a metaphysical reality, an ontological truth, and an inherent normative order capable of realisation by human beings, including translation into jurisprudential thinking and law. Insights from the new natural law theory (the ‘Grisez-Finnis school’) are used to start formulating a jurisprudential understanding of this Natural Law of Peace and how it may be practically known.
Shahar Shalom Yadin (Sun,) studied this question.