Intractable Conflicts - Socio-Psychological Foundations and Dynamics

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Bar-Tal is the Branco Weiss Professor of Research in Child Development and Education at Tel-Aviv University. His primary research interests are political and social psychology, particularly the socio-psychological foundations of intractable conflicts and peace building. Professor Bar-Tal is the recipient of a number of major awards, including the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize of SPSSI, the Golestan Fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Peace Scholar Award of the Peace and Justice Studies Association and the 2011 Lasswell Award and 2012 Nevitt Sanford Award of the International Society of Political Psychology. He has published widely in the areas of conflict and peace studies. His 2005 book Stereotypes and Prejudice in Conflict, co-authored with Yona Teichman, received the Alexander George Award from the International Society of Political Psychology. Klappentext Provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, original and holistic analysis of the socio-psychological foundations and dynamics of intractable conflicts and their resolution. Zusammenfassung Provides a comprehensive! interdisciplinary! original and holistic analysis of the socio-psychological foundations and dynamics of intractable conflicts and their resolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I: 1. Nature of intractable conflicts; 2. Eruption of intractable conflicts; 3. Escalation of intractable conflicts; Part II: 4. Collective memory of intractable conflicts; 5. Ethos of conflict; 6. Collective emotional orientations in intractable conflicts; Part III: 7. Institutionalization of the culture of conflict; 8. Socio-psychological barriers to peaceful conflict resolution; Part IV: 9. Breaking the cycles of intractable conflict; 10. Peace building: concepts and their nature; 11. Peace building: processes and methods; Epilogue; References....

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• Authors: Daniel Bar Tal, BAR TAL DANIEL, Daniel Bar-Tal, Daniel (Tel-Aviv University) Bar-Tal, Bar-Tal Daniel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2013
• EAN: 9780521867085
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86708-5
• No. of pages: 584
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, Social, group or collective psychology, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Peace studies & conflict resolution