Harvey Langholtz

The Psychology of Peacekeeping (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Langholtz examines how psychology and other social sciences can offer both theoretical explanations and practical applications in the resolution and amelioration of potentially violent international conflicts. Since the end of the Cold War and bipolar ideologies, the international community has been willing to intervene using approaches that are founded as much in psychology as in force and these remedies have not been confined to the violent periods of conflicts. This book examines psychological interventions and issues during three phases of conflicts. First, the book examines measures available in advance of a threatening conflict through early intervention and an examination of ethnopolitical issues, economic problems, and potential diplomatic solutions. Second, psychological facets of peacekeeping are examined: the selection of peacekeepers, psychological ambiguities of peacekeeping, and the numbing that comes with widespread suffering. Finally the book examines the psychological measures available to strengthen a cease-fire, deal with mines and related after-effects of war, encourage reconciliation, and hasten the return to a stable and durable peace.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313028144
• Artikelnr.: 37808261

Autorenporträt

HARVEY J. LANGHOLTZ is Associate Professor of Psychology at the College of William and Mary. He is a Special Senior Fellow of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. He is also Series Editor for the Praeger series, Psychological Dimensions to War and Peace, and the Editor of Kluwer Law International's International Peacekeeping Yearbook. From 1991 to 1993 he was a U.S. Delegate to the United Nations, including service with the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations. CHRIS E. STOUT is Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology at the Northwestern University Medical School, and a Visiting Clinical Professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He serves as Illinois' first Chief of Psychological Services. He served as an NGO Special Representative to the United Nations, was appointed by the U.S. Department of Commerce as a Baldridge Examiner, and has served as an advisor to the White House for both political parties.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by the Honorable Lawrence S. Eagleburger Introduction by Harvey J.
Langholtz Prevention: Psychological and Social Issues That Can Avert or
Lead to War The Evolving Psychology of Peacekeeping by Harvey J. Langholtz
Peace through Economic and Social Development by Claudia González-Vallejo
and Giselda Barroso Sauveur Early Intervention: Prediction and Action by
Ervin Staub The Psychology of Diplomacy: Conflict Resolution in a Time of
Minimal or Unusual Small-Scale Conflicts by Ambassador Edward J. Perkins
Cultural and Ethnic Issues of Conflict and Peacekeeping by Paul R. Kimmel
Psychological Considerations during Periods of Conflict Insensitivity to
the Value of Human Life: A Study of Psychophysical Numbing by David
Fetherstonhaugh, Paul Slovic, Stephen M. Johnson, and James Friedrich
Personnel Selection and Preparation for U.N. Peacekeeping Missions by Brian
Kidwell and Harvey J. Langholtz Psychological Aspects of Peacekeeping on
the Ground by Christian Harleman Psychological Ambiguities in Peacekeeping
by Thomas W. Britt Psychological Aspects and Confidence-Building Measures
in the Transition from Violence to a Durable Peace Humanitarian
Intervention, Psychosocial Assistance, and Peacekeeping by Michael G.
Wessells Peacekeeping and the Psychology of Conflict Resolution by Tom
Woodhouse Creating a Durable Peace: Psychological Aspects of Rebuilding and
Reforming the Indigenous Criminal Justice System by J. Matthew Vaccaro The
Psychological Consequences of Mines Left Behind Following a Conflict by
Barry Cox and Harvey J. Langholtz Postconflict Peacebuilding and Making
Efforts Count: Reconstruction, Elections, and Beyond by Valeria M. Gonzalez
Posse Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and the Contribution of International
Peacekeeping by Eileen Borris and Paul F. Diehl The Peace Process at Its
Culmination: The Reconciliation Elections by Fabrizio Pagani Treating the
New World Disorder by Henry Breed Index