Sustainable Development and Social Market Economy to Promote a Culture of Peace

The aim of the chapter is to analyze the evolution of the concept of sustainability and the role of the culture of peace for a balanced sustainable development. The culture of peace is an essential ingredient for sustainable development. Sustainable development plans can be delayed or accelerated depending on the creative and dynamic integration of culture in development planning. The chapter also deepens the link between sustainability and social market economy in a vision in which the intersection between the two paradigms promotes the culture of peace. The chapter aims to contribute to the debate on the future prospects of the European socioeconomic model and to verify how these teachings can be generalized to grasp the scope of institutional arrangements in helping to address the great turning points of economic development in the direction of peace.