Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace (eBook)
XVIII, 407 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-0-387-09575-2 (ISBN)
Mediation and negotiation, personal transformation, non-violent struggle in the community and the world: these behaviors - and their underlying values - underpin the United Nations' definition of a culture of peace, and are crucial to the creation of such a culture. The Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace addresses this complex and daunting task by presenting an accessible blueprint for this development. Its perspectives are international and interdisciplinary, involving the developing as well as the developed world, with illustrations of states and citizens using peace-based values to create progress on the individual, community, national, and global levels. The result is both realistic and visionary, a prescription for a secure future.
Joseph de Rivera is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Peace Studies Program at Clark University. He attended Bowdoin College, graduated from Yale, served in the Navy Medical Service Corps, and received his doctorate from Stanford University. His area of research focuses on the experience of nuclear weapons, peace fairs, and the emotional motivation of righteous behavior.
Mediation and negotiation, personal transformation, non-violent struggle in the community and the world: these behaviors-and their underlying values-underpin the United Nations' definition of a culture of peace, and are crucial to the creation of such a culture. The Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace addresses this complex and daunting task by presenting an accessible blueprint for this development. Its perspectives are international and interdisciplinary, involving the developing as well as the developed world, with illustrations of states and citizens using peace-based values to create progress on the individual, community, national, and global levels. The result is both realistic and visionary, a prescription for a secure future. A sampling of topics covered in the Handbook:Basic components of a culture of peace (including education, tolerance, gender equality, human rights, and sustainable development), and how each strengthens the whole.The politics and socioeconomics of a culture of peace.The relationship of personal to cultural change.Applying peace concepts in the law enforcement, justice, and prison systems.Community reconciliation and post-conflict reconstruction.Achieving peace in the family.Assessing-and learning from-modern cultures of peace.Global in scope and far-reaching in its analysis, the Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace is a source of real-world ideas and lucid insights to enhance the work of social and peace psychologists, policy analysts, and the studies of graduate students in psychology and sociology.
Joseph de Rivera is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Peace Studies Program at Clark University. He attended Bowdoin College, graduated from Yale, served in the Navy Medical Service Corps, and received his doctorate from Stanford University. His area of research focuses on the experience of nuclear weapons, peace fairs, and the emotional motivation of righteous behavior.
Preface 5
Contents 7
Contributors 10
Introduction 18
Views from the Social Sciences 26
Learning from Extant Cultures of Peace 27
Political Economy of Peace 43
War in Peace: Cultural Regulation of the Construction- Destruction Dynamic 58
Culture Change: A Practical Method with a Theoretical Basis 71
The Paradigm Challenge of Political Science: Delegitimizing the Recourse to Violence 85
Assessing the Peacefulness of Cultures 102
Building the Eight Bases for a Culture of Peace 117
Peace Education: Its Nature, Nurture and the Challenges It Faces 118
Gender Equality and a Culture of Peace 133
Social Cohesion and Tolerance for Group Differences 149
Democratic Participation 163
Open Communication 177
Human Rights and Peacebuilding 191
International Security 206
Sustainable Development 220
Tools for Building Cultures of Peace 237
General Methods 237
Nonviolent Action, Trust and Building a Culture of Peace 238
Negotiation and the Shadow of Law 252
Deliberate Dialogue 265
Restorative Justice and Prison Reform 279
Police Oversight 293
Methods Aimed at Specific Levels 308
Personal Transformations Needed for Cultures of Peace 309
Achieving Peace in the Family 322
Participatory Approaches to Community Change: Building Cooperation through Dialogue and Negotiation Using Participatory Rural Appraisal 336
Community Reconciliation and Post- Conflict Reconstruction for Peace 352
Reconciliation as a Foundation of Culture of Peace 365
Using the Tools to Build the UN Bases 380
Author Index 387
Subject Index 396
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.11.2008 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Peace Psychology Book Series |
| Zusatzinfo | XVIII, 407 p. |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen | |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| Technik | |
| Schlagworte | conflict • cultural regulation • Human Rights • International Security • national security • Peace • Peacebuilding • Peace Building • Restorative Justice • Social Cohesion |
| ISBN-10 | 0-387-09575-6 / 0387095756 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-387-09575-2 / 9780387095752 |
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