Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century

by Christie, Daniel J.; Wagner, Richard V.; Winter, Deborah DuNann

• ISBN13: 9780130968210
• ISBN10: 0130968218
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Contributors	xv
Introduction to Peace Psychology	1	(14)
Daniel J. Christie
Richard V. Wagner
Deborah Du Nann Winter
SECTION I DIRECT VIOLENCE	15	(84)
Richard V. Wagner
Intimate Violence	19	(9)
Naomi Abrahams
Anti-Gay/Lesbian Violence in the United States	28	(11)
Bianca Cody Murphy
Intrastate Violence	39	(10)
Ulrike Niens
Ed Cairns
Nationalism and War: A Social-Psychological Perspective	49	(17)
Daniel Druckman
Integrative Complexity and Political Decisions that Lead to War or Peace	66	(10)
Lucian Gideon Conway III
Peter Suedfeld
Philip E. Tetlock
Genocide and Mass Killing: Their Roots and Prevention	76	(11)
Ervin Staub
Weapons of Mass Descruction	87	(12)
Michael Britton
SECTION II STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE	99	(70)
Deborah Du Nann Winter
Dana C. Leighton
Social Injustice	102	(8)
Susan Opotow
The War Close to Home: Children and Violence in the United States	110	(10)
Kathleen Kostelny
James Garbarino
Children and Structural Violence	120	(10)
Milton Schwebel
Daniel J. Christie
Women, Girls, and Structural Violence: A Global Analysis	130	(9)
Dyan Mazurana
Susan McKay
Understanding Militarism: Money, Masculinity, and the Search for the Mystical	139	(10)
Deborah Du Nann Winter
Marc Pilisuk
Sara Houck
Matthew Lee
Globalism and Structural Violence	149	(9)
Marc Pilisuk
Human Rights Violations as Structural Violence	158	(11)
M. Brinton Lykes
SECTION III PEACEMAKING	169	(108)
Richard V. Wagner
U.N. Peacekeeping: Confronting the Psychological Environment of War in the Twenty-first Century	173	(10)
Harvey J. Langholtz
Peter Leentjes
The Cultural Context of Peacemaking	183	(10)
Paul B. Pedersen
Conflict Resolution: Theoretical and Practical Issues	193	(17)
Ann Sanson
Di Bretherton
Crafting Peace: On the Psychology of the TRANSCEND Approach	210	(13)
Johan Galtung
Finn Tschudi
Introducing Cooperation and Conflict Resolution into Schools: A Systems Approach	223	(17)
Peter Coleman
Morton Deutsch
Reducing Trauma During Ethno-Political Conflict: A Personal Account of Psycho-social Work under War Conditions in Bosnia	240	(11)
Inger Agger
Reconciliation in Divided Societies	251	(11)
Cheryl de la Rey
Psychosocial Interventions and Post-War Reconstruction in Angola: Interweaving Western and Traditional Approaches	262	(15)
Michael Wessells
Carlinda Monteiro
SECTION IV PEACEBUILDING: APPROACHES TO SOCIAL JUSTICE	277	(96)
Daniel J. Christie
Toward a Psychology of Structural Peacebuilding	282	(13)
Cristina Jayme Montiel
Psychologies for Liberation: Views from Elsewhere	295	(12)
Andy Dawes
Gandhi as Peacebuilder: The Social Psychology of Satyagraha	307	(7)
Daniel M. Mayton II
Peacebuilding and Nonviolence: Gandhi's Perspective on Power	314	(10)
Manfred B. Steger
Giving Voice to Children's Perspectives on Peace	324	(6)
Ilse Hakvoort
Solveig Hagglund
Redressing Structural Violence against Children: Empowerment-based Interventions and Research	330	(11)
Linda Webster
Douglas B. Perkins
Gendering Peacebuilding	341	(9)
Susan McKay
Dyan Mazurana
Psychologists Making a Difference in the Public Arena: Building Cultures of Peace	350	(23)
Michael Wessells
Milton Schwebel
Anne Anderson
Conclusion: Peace Psychology for the Twenty-first Century	363	(10)
Deborah Du Nann Winter
Daniel J. Christie
Richard V. Wagner
Laura B. Boston
References	373	(44)
Index	417