Publisher's Synopsis
Several well known scholars present social and psychological perspectives on nonviolence. Contents: Toward a Theory of the Psychology of Nonviolence, V.K. Kool; Psychological Obstacles to Peace, Michael Wessells; Nuclear War Fears Across the Life Cycle, Stephen McConnell, Barry Duncan, Debra Merrifield; What Moves the Peace Movement: Psychosocial Factors in Historical Perspective, Milton Schwebel; The Differential Psychological Effects of Positive and Negative Approaches to Peace, Richard V. Wagner; Moral Exclusion and Nonviolence: The Japanese American Internment, Donna Nagata; A Social Psychology of Rules of War, Jeffrey Mann; Children as Peacemakers, Jill Alexander, Stephen McConnell; Resiliency and its Relationship to Productivity and Nonviolence, Joanne Joseph; Transforming Myths of War to Create a Legacy of Peace, Michael Britton; Nonviolence: An Empirical Study in India, Manisha Sen; Peace Psychology, Herbert Blumberg; Gandhi's Concept of Love, Ian M. Harris; Nonviolence in the 21st Century, Kenneth E. Boulding; Feminist Debates about Nonviolence, Lynn M. Woehrle; The Center for Nonviolence, Richard L. Johnson; Protective Accompaniment, Patrick G. Coy; Hannah Arendt on Nonviolence and Political Action, Gail M. Presbey; Teaching Human Rights in the Social Sciences, Joseph Wronka; and Exercises in Nonviolent Action, Theodore Herman.
