Invitation to peace studies:

"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 at...

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1. Verfasser: Wood, Houston 1944- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Oxford University Press [2016]
Ausgabe:First edition
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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"...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-284) and index
Beschreibung:ix, 294 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme 24 cm
ISBN:9780190217136

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