Invitation to Peace Studies

Zusatztext Invitation to Peace Studies will prove to be an irresistible invitation in the marketplace of Peace Studies. Informationen zum Autor Houston Wood teaches peace studies at Hawai'i Pacific University. He is the author of Native Features: Indigenous Films from Around the World (2008) and Displacing Natives: The Rhetorical Production of Hawai'i (1999) and the coauthor, with Hugh Mehan, of The Reality of Ethnomethodology (1983). Klappentext Invitation to Peace Studies is an engaging and accessible introductory textbook designed for diverse courses that examine conflict, nonviolence, peace, or violence. Zusammenfassung Invitation to Peace Studies is the first textbook in the field to emphasize 21st-century research and controversies and to encourage the more frequent use of a gender perspective in analyzing peace, war and violence. Recent empirical research forms the core of most chapters, but substantial attention is also given to faith-based ideas, movements, and peace pioneers. The book examines compelling contemporary topics like cyber warfare, drones, robots, digital activism, hactivism, the physiology of peace, rising rates of suicide, and peace through health. It is also unique in its use of a single coherent perspective--that of a global peace network--to make sense of the historically unprecedented and interconnected web of diverse ideas, individuals, groups, organizations, and movements currently promoting peace across the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Invitations to Peace Work Part One: The Global Peace Network 2. Peace Concepts, Disputes, and Confusions 3. Peace Networks: Benefits and Challenges 4. Trends in Violence, Terrorism, and War 5. Building Gender Security Part Two: From Violence to Nonviolence 6. Interstate War and Peace 7. The Rise of Nonviolence and Human Rights 8. Nonviolent Power, Methods, and Strategies 9. Religious Influences Part Three: Disciplinary Perspectives 10. Biological Foundations 11. Peace Psychology 12. The Sociology of Violence 13. Inner and Outer Peace Work ...

Product details

• Authors: Houston Wood, Houston (Professor of English Wood, Wood Houston
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2015
• EAN: 9780190217136
• ISBN: 978-0-19-021713-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, 21st Century, Defence strategy, planning & research, Military vehicles, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Air forces and warfare, Military and defence strategy, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Military aircraft, HISTORY / Military / Aviation & Space, HISTORY / Military / Vehicles / Air