Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Webel, Charles; Galtung, Johan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This major new Handbook provides a cutting-edge and transdisciplinary overview of the main issues, debates, state-of-the-art methods, and key concepts in peace and conflict studies today.

The Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies will be essential reading for students of peace studies, conflict studies and conflict resolution. It will also be of interest and use to practitioners in conflict resolution and NGOs, as well as policy makers and diplomats.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134154807
• Artikelnr.: 42739428

Autorenporträt

Charles Webel is currently Fulbright Senior Specialist in Peace and Conflict Studies and is a professor at the University of New York in Prague, where he directs the program in Peace and Conflict Studies. During 2005, he was Director of The Centre of Peace Studies and a professor of social science at the University of Tromsø, Norway. He is the author of Terror, Terrorism, and the Human Condition (2007) and co-author with David P. Barash of Peace and Conflict Studies (2008). Johan Galtung is widely acknowledged as the founder of peace studies and peace research. He has published extensively in these fields. He is currently co-director of TRANSCEND, a global network of peace scholars and conflict transformers.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Toward a Philosophy and Metapsychology of Peace 2. Peace by
Peaceful Conflict Transformation: The Transcend Approach Part 1:
Understanding and Transforming Conflict 3. Negotiation 4. Mediation 5.
Former Yugoslavia and Iraq: A Comparative Analysis of International
Conflict Mismanagement 6. Peace Studies and Peace Politics: Multicultural
Common Security in North-South Conflict Situations 7. Disarmament 8.
Nuclear Disarmament Part 2: Creating Peace 9. Peace and Conflict Counseling
and Training: The Transcend Approach 10. Nonviolence - More Than the
Absence of Violence 11. Human Rights / Peace Processes 12. Reconciliation
13. Peace as a Self-Regulating Process Part 3: Supporting Peace 14. Gender
and Peace: Towards a Gender-Inclusive Holistic Perspective 15. Peace
Business 16. Peace Journalism 17. Peace Psychology: Theory and Practice 18.
Rethinking Peace Education Part 4: Peace Across the Disciplines 19. Peace
Studies as a Transdisciplinary Project 20. The Spirit of War and the Spirit
of Peace: Understanding the Role of Religion 21. International Law: Amid
Power, Order and Justice 22. The Language Game of Peace 23. Peace and the
Arts 24. Peace through Health? Conclusion