Overview
- Represents a wide range of cultural contexts, including authors and subject matters from under-represented areas, such as Africa and South America
- Provides an overview that will inform individuals on how to create and promote peace around the world
- Focuses on the active promotion of peace, rather than a passive reaction to violence
Part of the book series: Peace Psychology Book Series (PPBS)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Children and Youth
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Front Matter
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Peace in Diverse Cultural Contexts
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Promoting Peace and Social Justice
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Keywords
- mindfulness and peace psychology
- children and youth in peace psychology
- peace and social justice
- empathy and peace psychology
- immigrant populations and peace
- marginalized youth in South America
- psychology of the African child
- peace education
- diversity and peace
- refugee populations
- promoting peace through religion
- social networks and peace
- environmental psychology and peace
- peace psychology methodology
About this book
This volume Psychology of Peace Promotion builds on previous volumes of peace psychology, extending its contributions by drawing from peace research and practices from five continents – Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. The book discusses emerging disciplinary and inter-disciplinary theories and actions. Each chapter begins with a theoretical framework for understanding peace, followed by a critical review of peace promotion in a specific setting, and concludes with an illustration of psychological principles or theories in either a narrative format or an empirical investigation. This volume develops, as well as guides, its readers on the epistemology of promoting and sustaining peace in varied settings around the world.
This book presents relevant, cutting-edge peace promotion strategies to anyone interested in promoting peace more effectively, including peace practitioners, scholars, teachers, and researchers, as well as the general reader. It presents a number of innovative approaches, illustrating their applications to specific social problems, settings and populations. In addition, this volume has much in store for both academic and practice-based scientists in thefield of peace psychology, mental health professionals, administrators, educators, and graduate students from various disciplines. The goal is the promotion and sustenance of peace, using theoretically sound, yet innovative and creative approaches. As expressed by the United Nations Secretary, “peace does not occur by happenstance.” Promoting and sustaining peace requires reflective, thoughtful, and targeted efforts. This book inspires its readers to develop a better understanding of peace and the means of promoting peace in a sustainable way.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mary Gloria C. Njoku, DDL was Professor & Dean, School of Postgraduate Studies, Godfrey Okoye University, in Thinkers Corner, Enugu, Nigeria. During her lifetime, Mary Gloria was involved in several peace promotion projects such as the annual youth peace conference started in 2011. This conference brought together people from varied backgrounds to learn about peace and generate action plans.
Burke Johnson, Ph.D., is a Professor of Education, University of South Alabama, College of Education, Mobile, AL USA. He is theauthor/coauthor/coeditor of 6 books on research methodology, which focus on analysis in social/behavioral/business/health sciences. His current emphasis is Mixed Methods Research, as illustrated in his chapter in this volume.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Psychology of Peace Promotion
Book Subtitle: Global Perspectives on Personal Peace, Children and Adolescents, and Social Justice
Editors: Mary Gloria C. Njoku, Leonard A. Jason, R. Burke Johnson
Series Title: Peace Psychology Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14943-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14942-0Published: 15 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14945-1Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14943-7Published: 04 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2197-5779
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5787
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 414
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, Developmental Psychology