Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction and Overview Part I: Personal PeaceChapter 1: Promoting Peace through Mindfulness - Mirjam Quinn
Chapter 2: Mindfulness and Peace - Lynn Waelde
Chapter 3: Empathic Assessment Heuristic - Carlos Hoyt
Part II: Children and Youth
Chapter 4: Promoting a Peaceful Generation through Parenting, Education, and Civic Engagement - Erin Paavola
Chapter 5: Raising a Peaceful Generation - Sherry Cheng
Chapter 6: Finding Light In the Barrios of Caracas: A Peace-Promotion Initiative with Marginalized Youth - Maria Elisa Castillo, Carolina Izquiel, Manuel Llorens, & Martin La Roche
Chapter 7: Cultural Scars and Lost Innocence. The Psychology of the African Child: Debasement and Renewal - Emmanuel Mbaezue & Kathleen Malley-Morrison
Chapter 8: Peace Education - Toshiaki Sasao
Chapter 9: Developmental Psychology and Peace - Gabriel Velez & Maria Cecilia Dedios
Part III: Peace in Diverse Cultural Contexts
Chapter 10: Diversity and Peace - Matthew Bereza
Chapter 11: Social Networks that Promote Peace - Leonard Jason
Chapter 12: Making Humanitarian Organizations/Programs Culturally Relevant for Minority Population within the Middle East - Kyle A. Msall
Chapter 13: Violence within Corrections: The Intersection of Feminist Criminology, Peace, Psychology and Human Rights - Alana Van Gundy Yoder & Susan Marcus Mendoza
Chapter 14: Diversity and Human Rights - Jessica Evans
Chapter 15: Traditional Methods of Promoting Peace in Southwest and Southeast, Nigeria - Mary Gloria C. Njoku, Christian C. Anieke, Prisca Isiwu, & Babajide Gideon Adeyinka
Chapter 16: Promoting Peace through Religious Strategies - Mary Gloria C. Njoku & Abok Danladi Atu
Chapter 17: Truth, Forgiving, and Reconciling: Pathways to Peace and the Context of Refugees - Raymond F. Paloutzian, Patrick Luyten, & Zeynep Sagir
Chapter 18: Forgiveness and Peace - Jean Hill & Ian T. Williamson
Part IV: Promoting Peace and Social Justice
Chapter 19: Social Justice and Peace - Linda M. Woolf
Chapter 20: Creating and Sustaining Peace through Storytelling - Mary Gloria C. Njoku & Jessica Senehi
Chapter 21: Turning Problems into Potential: Positive Social Movement Dynamics - Rachel MacNair
Chapter 22: Environmental Psychology and Peace - Olaifa Temitope Abimbola
Chapter 23: Peace Research by Peaceful Means - Diane Bretherton & Siew Fang Law
Epilogue: by the Editors