This working paper situates the Gradido concept (Hückstädt 2026) — an integrative monetary and economic reform — within Dieter Senghaas's civilisational hexagon (Senghaas 2004) and examines the tiering of the peace-implication hypothesis. The argument rests on three load-bearing pillars: the convergence of fifteen independent connection lines from peace and cooperation research as well as adjacent disciplines; their structuring into six independent mechanic clusters (debt-free money creation, trade interdependence, livelihood security, climate resilience, inequality dampening, values-and-culture coherence); and Gradido's systematic hexagon positioning, with three conditions addressed directly (democratic participation, social justice, interdependence and affect control) and three indirectly (monopoly of legitimate force, rule of law, constructive conflict culture) — all six conditions touched. A comparative assessment of seven other reform concepts — Unconditional Basic Income, demurrage alone, Modern Monetary Theory, sovereign-money reform, Civil Economy, post-growth economics, and the hard-money tradition (Austrian school, gold standard, Bitcoin) — shows that Gradido is the only one of the compared concepts to address all six hexagon conditions. The methodological point is connectability, not superiority. The peace-implication hypothesis is tiered as PLAUSIBLE — structurally through convergent multiple evidence, not through direct empirical demonstrability of the global effect claim. Explicit caveat: Gradido is one of several peace factors; geopolitical, identity-based, and institutional drivers remain independent. The working paper understands itself as an invitation to convergence — to peace research, reform economics, and policy practice — including preparations for future real-world labs.
Bernd Hückstädt (Tue,) studied this question.