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Peace, Conflict, and Violence
Peace Psychology for the 21st Century
Edition 1
Daniel Christie, Richard Wagner, Deborah Winter
0-13-096821-8
Paperback
448 pages
2001
Brief Description
For courses in peace studies, peace education, international studies, psychology, political science, anthropology, and sociology. It is also appropriate for any course that addresses conflict (including conflict resolution), violence, and peace.
Peace, Conflict, and Violence brings together the key concepts, themes, theories, and practices that are defining peace psychology as we begin the 21st century. This comprehensive book is rooted in psychology, but includes a wide range of interpersonal, community, national and international contexts, multiple levels of analysis from micro to macro, and multi-disciplinary perspectives. It reflects the breadth of the field and captures the main intellectual currents in peace psychology.
Features
4 main intellectual currents -
- violence,
- social inequalities,
- peacemaking, and
- the pursuit of social justice.
Provides students with a single book that reflects the breadth of the field. Helps students develop a philosophy of nonviolence, conflict and analysis skills, and general approaches to human relationships that are less confrontational and more constructive.
Comprehensive approach to violence and social injustices. Students will benefit by developing a more complex view of the immediate causes of violence and a deeper appreciation for the structural roots of violence.
International and Multicultural Perspectives - Reflecting many nations and cultures around the world. Students will be captivated by the contrast between Western views and other views around the world and will learn the importance of being sensitive to cultural differences.
Multidisciplinary. Students will see how psychology fits within the larger context of other disciplines in the social sciences.
Wide range of topics - Including ethnic conflict, family violence, hate crimes, militarism, conflict management, social justice, nonviolent approaches to peace, and peace education. Brings together in one place, international perspectives on key concepts, themes, theories, and practices that are defining peace psychology as we begin the 21st century.
Contents
I. DIRECT VIOLENCE.
1. Intimate Violence, Naomi Abrahams.
2. Anti-Gay/Lesbian Violence in the United States, Bianca Cody Murphy.
3. Intrastate Violence, Ulrike Niens and Ed Cairns.
4. Nationalism and War: A Social-Psychological Perspective, Daniel Druckman.
5. Integrative Complexity and Political Decisions that Lead to War or Peace, Lucien Gideon Conway III, Peter Suedfeld, and Philip E. Tetlock.
6. Genocide and Mass Killing: Their Roots and Prevention, Ervin Staub.
7. Weapons of Mass Destruction, Michael Britton.
II. STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE.
8. The War Close to Home: Children and Violence in the United States, Kathleen Kostelny and James Garbarino.
9. Children and Structural Violence, Milton Schwebel and Daniel J. Christie.
10. Women, Girls, and Structural Violence: A Global Analysis, Dyan Mazurana and Susan McKay.
11. Understanding Militarism: Money, Masculinity, and the Search for the Mystical, Deborah Du Nann Winter and Marc Pilisuk, Sara Houck and Matthew Lee.
12. Globalism and Structural Violence, Marc Pilisuk.
13. Human Rights Violations as Structural Violence, M. Brinton Lykes.
14. Social Injustice, Susan Opotow.
III. PEACEMAKING.
15. U.N. Peacekeeping: Confronting the Psychological Environment of War in the 21st Century, Harvey Langholtz and Peter Leendjes.
16. The Cultural Context of Peacemaking, Paul B. Pedersen.
17. Conflict Resolution: Theoretical and Practical Issues, Ann Sanson and Di Bretherton.
18. Crafting Peace: On the Psychology of the Transcend Approach, Johan Galtung and Finn Tschudi.
19. Introducing Cooperation and Conflict Resolution into Schools: A Systems Approach, Peter Coleman and Morton Deutsch.
20. Reducing Trauma During Ethno-Political Conflict: A Personal Account of Psycho-Social Work Under War Conditions in Bosnia, Inger Agger.
21. Reconciliation in Divided Societies, Cheryl de la Rey.
22. Psychosocial Interventions and Post-War Reconstruction in Angola: Interweaving Western and Traditional Approaches, Michael Wessells and Carlinda Monteiro.
IV. PEACEBUILDING: APPROACHES TO SOCIAL JUSTICE.
23. Toward a Psychology of Structural Peacebuilding, Cristina Jayme Montiel.
24. Psychologies for Liberation: View from Elsewhere, Andy Dawes.
25. Gandhi as Peacebuilder: The Social Psychology of Satyagraha, Daniel M. Mayton II.
26. Peacebuilding and Nonviolence: Gandhis Perspective on Power, Manfred B. Steger.
27. Giving Voice to Childrens Perspectives on Peace, Ilse Hakvoort and Solveig H™gglund.
28. Structural Violence and its Impact on Children and Families: Empowerment-Based Interventions and Research, Linda Webster and Douglas B. Perkins.
29. Gendering Peacebuilding, Susan McKay and Dyan Mazurana.
30. Psychologists Making a Difference in the Public Arena: Building Cultures of Peace, Michael Wessells, Milton Schwebel, and Anne Anderson.
CONCLUSION.
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