Peace Psychology in the Balkans - Dealing with a Violent Past while Building Peace

The volume covers the development of peace psychology in the Balkans. The Balkans is a region marked by post-communist and post-conflict transitional turmoil, and this book provides a comprehensive introduction to research in peace psychology in this part of the world, written by scholars primarily working in the Balkan area. It brings together innovative scholarship that examines interdisciplinary aspects of peace psychology researched and written by scholars from Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Croatia, and Slovenia as well as presenting research that responds to contemporary global issues by tracking the ways in which peace psychology is developing and implementing in the Balkans.

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The volume covers the development of peace psychology in the Balkans. The Balkans is a region marked by post-communist and post-conflict transitional turmoil, and this book provides a comprehensive introduction to research in peace psychology in this part of the world, written by scholars primarily working in the Balkan area. It brings together innovative scholarship that examines interdisciplinary aspects of peace psychology researched and written by scholars from Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Croatia, and Slovenia as well as presenting research that responds to contemporary global issues by tracking the ways in which peace psychology is developing and implementing in the Balkans.

Product details

• Assisted by: Catherine R. Philpot (Editor), Catherine R Philpot (Editor), Olivera Simi (Editor), Simic (Editor), Olivera Simic (Editor), Olivera Simić (Editor), Zala Vol i (Editor), Zal Volcic (Editor), Zala Volcic (Editor), Zala Volčič (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2014
• EAN: 9781493900244
• ISBN: 978-1-4939-0024-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 13 mm x 240 mm
• Weight: 406 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 248 p.
• Series: Peace Psychology Book Series; Peace Psychology Book Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; C, Political Science, personality, Political science & theory, Social Psychology, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Social, group or collective psychology, International Economics, Community and Environmental Psychology, Community Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Differential Psychology, European Integration, Economic systems & structures, Environmental Psychology, International institutions, European Economic Community literature