Part I. The Promise of Peace, the Problems of War
Chapter 1. The Meanings of Peace
Chapter 2. Peace and Conflict Studies, Education, and Research
Chapter 3. The Meanings of Wars
Chapter 4. Terrorism Versus Counterterrorism
Chapter 5. The Special Significance of Nuclear Weapons
Part II. The Reasons For Wars
Chapter 6. The Individual Level
Chapter 7. The Group Level
Chapter 8. The State Level
Chapter 9. The Decision-Making Level
Chapter 10. The Ideological, Social, and Economic Levels
Part III. Building "Negative Peace"
Chapter 11. Peace Movements
Chapter 12. Diplomacy, Negotiations, and Conflict Resolution
Chapter 13. Disarmament and Arms Control
Chapter 14. International Cooperation
Chapter 15. Peace Through Strength?
Chapter 16. International Law
Chapter 17. Ethical and Religious Perspectives
Part IV. Building Positive Peace
Chapter 18. Human Rights
Chapter 19. Ecological Well-Being
Chapter 20. Economic Well-Being
Chapter 21. Movements Toward Democracy
Chapter 22. National Reconciliation
Chapter 23. Nonviolence
Chapter 24. Toward A More Peaceful Future
David P. Barash (PhD, University of Wisconsin) is a professor of
psychology emeritus at the University of Washington. His studies
span animal behavior, evolution, and social psychology, with
concentrations in sociobiology, psychological aspects of the arms
race and nuclear war, and peace studies. A prolific author and
researcher, he has written more than 270 technical articles and 40
books ranging from monographs to college textbooks to popular trade
titles. His book Introduction to Peace Studies (1991) was the first
comprehensive undergraduate textbook in the field of Peace Studies.
His book Threats: Intimidation and its Discontents (2020, Oxford
University Press), is especially concerned with debunking nuclear
deterrence.
Charles P. Webel (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is
presently a professor of international relations and philosophy at
the University of New York in Prague. He previously held the Delp-
Wilkinson Chair in Peace Studies at Chapman University. A five-time
Fulbright Scholar and graduate of the Psychoanalytic Institute of
Northern California, he has conducted postdoctoral research at
Harvard University, the Max Planck Institute, and the Universities
of Paris, Frankfurt, and Heidelberg. He has also taught in the
Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Berkeley, the Honors College
of University of South Florida, and at Harvard College. He is the
author or editor of many articles and nine books, including the
forthcoming The Fate of this World and the Future of Humanity.
""Beautifully crafted, logically constructed, the book by Barash
and Webel will be the introductory text to peace and conflict
studies for years to come. With a wealth of interesting material
and a clear, accommodating, yet sufficiently rigorous, framework
anyone who has studied these pages will come out a richer person,
more able to act in and on today s world." "--Johan Galtung
"" Beautifully crafted, logically constructed, the book by Barash
and Webel will be the introductory text to peace and conflict
studies for years to come. With a wealth of interesting material
and a clear, accommodating, yet sufficiently rigorous, framework
anyone who has studied these pages will come out a richer person,
more able to act in and on today??'s world." "
"""" Beautifully crafted, logically constructed, the book by Barash
and Webel will be the introductory text to peace and conflict
studies for years to come. With a wealth of interesting material
and a clear, accommodating, yet sufficiently rigorous, framework
anyone who has studied these pages will come out a richer person,
more able to act in and on today's world." """ -- Johan
Galtung
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