David P. Barash / Charles P. Webel

Gebundenes Buch

Peace and Conflict Studies

Beschreibung

Main description:
This book comprehensively introduces students to the relatively young interdisciplinary field of peace and conflict studies. A hallmark of the book is the effort it makes to encourage independent and critical thinking among student readers.

Review quote:
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'Beautifully crafted, logically constructed, the book by Barash and Webel will be the introductory text to peace and conflict studies for years to come. With a wealth of interesting material and a clear, accommodating, yet sufficiently rigorous, framework anyone who has studied these pages will come out a richer person, more able to act in and on todays world.'
. Johan Galtung

Table of contents:
I. THE PROMISE OF PEACE, THE PROBLEM OF WAR
1. The Meanings of Peace
2. Peace Movements
3. The Meanings of War
4. The Special Significance of Nuclear Weapons
II. THE REASONS FOR WARS
5. The Individual Level
6. The Group Level
7. The State Level
8. The Decision-Making Level
9. The Ideological, Social, and Economic Levels
III. BUILDING NEGATIVE PEACE
10. Diplomacy, Negotiations, and Conflict Resolution
11. Peace Through Strength?
12. Disarmament and Arms Control
13. International Organizations
14. International Law
15. World Government
16. Ethical and Religious Perspectives
IV. BUILDING POSITIVE PEACE
17. Human Rights
18. Ecological Wholeness
19. Economic Well-Being
20. Nonviolence
21. Toward the Future

Autor

David P. Barash received his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin in 1970 and has been with the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington since 1973. His studies span animal behavior and social psychology, with concentrations in sociobiology, psychological aspects of the arms race and nuclear war, peace studies, and animal behavior and evolution. A prolific author, he has written 180 technical articles and 19 books ranging from monographs (Marmots: Social Behavior amp; Ecology ) to college textbooks (Sociobiology amp; Behavior ) to popular trade titles (The Great Outdoors and The Whisperings Within ). His 1991 Wadsworth text, Introduction to Peace Studies , upon which the current book is derived, helped to shape and define Peace Studies as a formal field of inquiry.
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, social work, and philosophy at Columbia University Press (1980-83).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761925071
• ISBN-10: 0761925074
• Artikelnr.: 21933719