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Peace and Conflict Studies A Reader

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ISBN-10: 0415591295

ISBN-13: 9780415591294

Edition: 2012

Authors: Charles Webel, Jorgen Johansen

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Peace and Conflict Studies: A Reader is a comprehensive and intensive introduction to the key works in this growing field.Peace and conflict studies, incorporating anthropology, sociology, political science, ethics, theology and history, aims to uncover the roots of conflict, transform the underlying causes, develop preventive strategies, and teach conflict resolution skills. As a trans-disciplinary inquiry into the nature of peace and the reasons for wars and other forms of human conflict, this discipline has grown exponentially since its birth about a half-century ago. Since 2000, in particular, there has been a sharp increase in peace and conflict studies curricula, particularly in the…    
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List price: $48.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 12/13/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 444
Size: 8.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.914
Language: English

Charles Webel received a multidisciplinary Ph.D. in Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, and Philosophy in 1976 from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, he has pursued post-doctoral studies at Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute and at the Universities of Paris, Frankfurt, and Heidelberg. A lecturer in the School of Social Welfare at Berkeley, his major fields of concentration include social and political theory; peace and conflict studies; social, political, and cultural psychology; and the philosophy of science and the social sciences. In addition to his academic career, he briefly enjoyed a career in publishing as executive editor of social sciences,…    

Introduction
Peace Studies, Peace Education, And Peace
What are Peace and Conflict Studies and Peace Education?
Shaping a Vision- The Nature of Peace and Conflict Studies
Four Major Challenges Facing Peace Education in Regions of Intractable Conflict
What is Peace?
Peace in International Relations
2011 Global Peace Index
Thinking Peace
Positive and Negative Peace
Peace Theories And Peace Movements
Philosophical and Religious Contributions to Peace
Eternal Peace
Address to The Swedish Peace Congress in 1909
The Moral Equivalent of War
The Russell-Einstein Manifesto
A Human Approach to World Peace
Peace and Social Justice Movements
PEACE: A History of Movements and Ideas
Introduction, from Peace Movements in International Protest and World Politics since 1945
From Protest to Cultural Creativity: Peace Movements Identified and Revisited
The Meanings And Nature Of Conflict
What are Violence and Conflicts?
On Violence
Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development
World Health Organization (WHO): An Internationally Accepted Definition of Violence
WHO: Violence Prevention: The Evidence, Overview
The Reasons for Violent Conflicts and Terrorism
Letter to Sigmund Freud
Why War?
UNESCO: Seville Statement on Violence
Psychological Contributions to Understanding Peace and Conflict
The Evil Scourge of Terrorism: Reality, Construction, Remedy
Conflict Analysis, Transformation, And Prevention
Conflict Dynamics, Resistance, and Democracy
Protagonist Strategies that help end Violence
Nonviolent Geopolitics; Rationality and Resistance
The United States and the Prospects for Democracy in Islamic Countries
Reconcilliation
How do Post-Conflict Societies Deal with a Traumatic Past and Promote National Unity and Reconciliation?
Disarmament
Disarmament and Survival
Overcoming War, The Importance of Constructive Alternatives
Nonviolent Action And Political Change
Nonviolence as a Way of Life
Home Rule
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence
Nonviolence as a Political Tool
How Nonviolence Works
Excerpts from, From Dictatorship to Democracy
Waves of Nonviolence and the New Revolutionary Movements
Building Institutions And Cultures Of Peace
Peacekeeping, Peace-building, and Peacemaking
A Critique of Robust Peacekeeping in Contemporary Peace Operations
Social Entrepreneurs and Constructive Change: The Wisdom of Circumventing Conflict
Systems-Building before State-Building: On the Systemic Preconditions of State-Building
Gender and Peace: Towards a Gender-Inclusive, Holistic Perspective
From Cultures of Violence to Cultures of Sustainable Peace
Competing Discourses on Aggression and Peacefulness
Gender, Conflict, and Social Capital; Bonding and Bridging in War in the former Yugoslavia
Peaceful Societies and Everyday Behaviour