Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace
Mediation and negotiation, personal transformation, non-violent struggle in the community and the world: these behaviorsand their underlying valuesunderpin 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...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
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2009.
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| Series: | Peace Psychology Book Series
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09575-2 |
Table of Contents:
- Historical approaches to peace building
- Learning from extant cultures of peace
- Evolutionary theory: the constraints and possibilities of human nature
- The culture of war/culture of peace dialectic and its history at the United Nations
- Assessing cultures of peace and emotional climates in current nation states
- Violence in peace and war: cultural psychology of the unity of construction and destruction
- Challenges posed by political economies
- Transnationality, globalization, and cultures of peace
- Peace education
- Gender equality
- Social cohesion and tolerance
- Democracy
- Open communications
- Human rights
- International security
- Sustainable development
- Nonviolent struggle and peace building
- Sustainable community development and societies of peace
- Negotiation
- Dialogic techniques
- Community reconciliation and post-conflict reconstruction for peace
- Personal transformations and spiritual practices
- Using the arts to promote cultural understanding and peace building
- Controlling street crime
- Using cities to build cultures of peace
- Achieving peace within the family
- Building peace in a consumer society
- Dealing with deviance: Restorative justice and prison reform
- Establishing departments of peace.