Mediation and negotiation, personal transformation, non-violent struggle in the community and the world: these behaviors – and their underlying values – underpin 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 Peace addresses this complex and daunting task by presenting an accessible blueprint for this development. Its perspectives are international and interdisciplinary, involving the developing as well as the developed world, with illustrations of states and citizens using peace-based values to create progress on the individual, community, national, and global levels. The result is both realistic and visionary, a prescription for a secure future. Interdisciplinary and international analysis that includes economically developed and underdeveloped nations Chapter authors discuss and formulate the ideas presented in the book in two conferences at Clark University to address how cultures of peace may be established and addressed Sections and chapters were based on a systematic review of best practices from a multicultural perspective that may be applicable to personal, small group, community, national, and global cultures of peace INDICE: 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.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-09574-5
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 415
- Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés