Houston Wood (Professor of English, Professor of English, Hawai'i P

Invitation to Peace Studies

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Produktbeschreibung

Invitation to Peace Studies is an engaging and accessible introductory textbook designed for diverse courses that examine conflict, nonviolence, peace, or violence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 235mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780190217136
• ISBN-10: 0190217138
• Artikelnr.: 42969172

Autorenporträt

Houston Wood teaches peace studies at Hawai'i Pacific University. He is the author of Native Features: Indigenous Films from Around the World (2008) and Displacing Natives: The Rhetorical Production of Hawai'i (1999) and the coauthor, with Hugh Mehan, of The Reality of Ethnomethodology (1983).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Invitations to Peace Work
Part One: The Global Peace Network
2. Peace Concepts, Disputes, and Confusions
3. Peace Networks: Benefits and Challenges
4. Trends in Violence, Terrorism, and War
5. Building Gender Security
Part Two: From Violence to Nonviolence
6. Interstate War and Peace
7. The Rise of Nonviolence and Human Rights
8. Nonviolent Power, Methods, and Strategies
9. Religious Influences
Part Three: Disciplinary Perspectives
10. Biological Foundations
11. Peace Psychology
12. The Sociology of Violence
13. Inner and Outer Peace Work