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Peace Education: The Concept, Principles, and Practices around the World
by Baruch Nevo, Gavriel Salomon. 296 pgs.

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Peace Education: The Concept, Principles, and Practices Around the World

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Preface

Contributors

I: The Concept

1: The Nature of Peace Education: Not All Programs Are Created Equal

2: Conceptual Underpinnings of Peace Education

3: The Elusive Nature of Peace Education

4: Paradoxes of Peace and the Prospects of Peace Education

5: The Gordian Knot Between Peace Education and War Education

6: Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Peace Education

7: From Healing Past Wounds to the Development of Inclusive Caring: Contents and Processes of Peace Education

II: Underlying Principles

8: Understanding the Conditions and Processes Necessary for Intergroup Contact to Reduce Prejudice

9: Conciliation Through Storytelling: Beyond Victimhood

10: Friendship, Contact, and Peace Education

11: Postresolution Processes: Instrumental and Socioemotional Routes to Reconciliation

12: The Commonality of the Body: Pedagogy and Peace Culture

13: Memory Work and the Remaking of the Future: a Critical Look at the Pedagogical Value of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Peace

III: The Practice

14: Belgium: the Triangle of Peace—education, Legislation, Mediation

15: Croatia: for Peace Education in New Democracies

16: Israel: an Integrative Peace Education in an Ngo—the Case of the Jewish-Arab Center for Peace at Givat Haviva

17: Cyprus: a Partnership Between Conflict Resolution and Peace Education

18: Israel: Empowering Arab and Jew—school Leadership in Acre

19: Northern Ireland: the Impact of Peacemaking in Northern Ireland on Intergroup Behavior

20: Rwanda: Attaining and Sustaining Peace

21: South Africa: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a Model of Peace Education

IV: The Research

22: Head-First Versus Feet-First in Peace Education

23: Conceptual Mapping and Evaluation of Peace Education Programs: the Case of Education for Coexistence Through Intergroup Encounters Between Jews and Arabs in Israel

24: Peace Education Programs and the Evaluation of Their Effectiveness

Author Index

Subject Index
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Education for Peace
by Herbert Read. 166 pgs.

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I Introduction: There is Now No Other Way

Ii Education for Peace

Iii Education in Things

Iv Culture and Education in A World Order

V The Moral Significance Of Aesthetic Education

Vi The Education of Free Men

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Perspectives on Nuclear War and Peace Education
by Robert Ehrlich. 248 pgs.

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Introduction Rationale and Prospects for Nuclear War Education Peace Education: Salvation or Curse? The Quest for Objectivity and Balance Psychosocial Dimensions of the Nuclear Threat Nuclear Courses in the Social Sciences Nuclear Courses in Humanities Nuclear Courses in Science and Technology Interdisciplinary Nuclear War Courses Special Topics for Nuclear War Courses Resources for Nuclear War Courses Public Opinion Surveys on Nuclear Issues

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Introduction

Part 1. Rationale and Prospects for Nuclear War Education

Chapter 1 Conceptual Framework for Nuclear Age Education

Chapter 2: The University and Nuclear Warfare

Chapter 3: Forty Years of Reaction to the Bomb

Chapter 4: Liberal Arts Rationale for Interdisciplinary Nuclear War Courses

Part 2. Peace Education: Salvation or Curse?

Chapter 1 the Future of Nuclear War Education: Prospects, Priorities, and Politics

Chapter 2: Prospects for Peace Education

Chapter 3: Educating Soviet Children on War and Peace

Chapter 4 Peace Studies: a Flawed Concept?

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Chapter 5: Motivations and Consequences of Precollege Nuclear Education

Part 3. The Quest for Objectivity and Balance

Chapter 1: Extracting Elements of Fact from Biased Source Materials for a Course on Nuclear Warfare

Chapter 2: Striving for Objectivity in a Nuclear War Course

Chapter 3 the Nuclear Debate: a Religious War

Part 4. Psychosocial Dimensions of the Nuclear Threat

Notes

Chapter 1 Effects of the Nuclear War Threat on Psychological Functioning: Implications for Educators

Chapter 2 Teaching About Psychological and Social Dimensions of the Nuclear Threat

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Conclusion

Part 5. Nuclear Courses in the Social Sciences

Chapter 1: Integrating Nuclear Issues into the Psychology Curriculum

Chapter 2: A Course on the Press and Nuclear Policy

Part 6. Nuclear Courses in the Humanities

Chapter 1: Teaching about Nuclear War through Fiction Paul Brians

Chapter 2: From Utopia to Apocalypse in Literature: An Elective Sophomore-level " Topics in Literature" Course

Chapter 3: The Bomb That Fell on America: A Cultural Approach to Nuclear Educatio n

Part 7. Nuclear Courses in Science and Technology

Chapter 1: Teaching Undergraduates about Nuclear War: The Role of a Physics Prere quisite

Chapter 2: Science and Technology of the Nuclear Arms Race: A Course at the Unive rsity of California-Davis

Part 8. Interdisciplinary Nuclear War Courses

Chapter 1 When an "Ideal" Course Fails

Chapter 2 a Course on Nuclear Perspectives

Chapter 3 Nukes for America's Preppies: a Nuclear Proliferation Seminar at Andover

Chapter 4 War/Peace Education in Wisconsin

Part 9. Special Topics for Nuclear War Courses

Chapter 1 Nuclear Winter: Climatic Consequences of Nuclear War

Notes

Chapter 2: Nuclear Winter Uncertainties and Implications Howard Maccabee

Chapter 3: Response to Critique

Chapter 4: The Role of Peace Movements: A Significant Theme in Nuclear War Educat ion

Chapter 5: Do Arms Races Cause Wars?

Part 10. Resources for Nuclear War Courses

Chapter 1 Nuclear War Crisis Exercise at Harvard University

Conclusions

Notes

Chapter 2 Film Resources for Nuclear War Courses

Chapter 3 Opinion Surveys: a Tool in Nuclear War Education

Part 11. Public Opinion Surveys on Nuclear Issues

Chapter 1: Attitudes toward Nuclear War and World Peace: A Cross-National Study o f Students in Six Countries

Chapter 2 Opinions of Nuclear War Educators

Bibliography

Index

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Peacebuilding for Adolescents: Strategies for Educators and Community Leaders
by Linda Rennie Forcey, Ian Murray Harris. 364 pgs.

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Adolescent Cultures, School & Society

Peacebuilding for Adolescents: Strategies for Educators and Community Leaders

Preface

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Chapter 1: Introduc Tion

Part I: Confronting Violence

Chapter 2: Dr. King's Giant Triplets: Racism, Materialism, and Militarism

Chapter 3: Countering School Violence: the Rise of Conflict Resolution Programs

Chapter 4: Redefining School Violence in Boulder Valley Colorado

Part II: Classroom Strategies for Peacebuilding

Chapter 5: Peace and Conflict Curricula for Adolescents

Chapter 6: The Speak Your Piece Project: Exploring Controversial Issues in Northern Ireland

Chapter 7: How Can Caring Help? a Personalized Cross-Generational Examination of Violent Adolescent Experiences in Schools

Chapter 8: Adventure-Based Learning in the Name of Peace

Part III: School Strategies for Peacebuilding

Chapter 9: A Developmental Approach to the Use of Conflict Resolution Interventions with Adolescents

Chapter 10: Nonviolent Interventions in Secondary Schools: Administrative Perspectives

Chapter 11: Integrating a Multicultural Peacebuilding Strategy into a Literac Y Curriculum

Chapter 12: Disturbing the Peace: Multicultural Education, Transgressive Teaching, and Independent School Culture

Part IV: School and Community

Chapter 13: Stop the Violence: Conflict Management in an Inner-City Junior High School Through Action Research and Community Problem Solving

Chapter 14: Special Needs, Special Measures: Working with Homeless and Poor Youth

Chapter 15: Community-Based Service: Re-Creating the Beloved Community

Chapter 16: A Summer Institute on Nonviolence

Appendix A: Reading List for Adolescents on Nonviolence

Appendix B: Peace!

Appendix C: Summer Institute on Nonviolence Evaluations

Contributors

Index
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Dance, Dialogue, and Despair: Existentialist Philosophy and Education for Peace in Israel
by Haim A. Gordon. 254 pgs.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: the Ariadne Thread

2. Existentialism and Education

3. Buber, Dialogue, and Education for Peace

4. Nietzsche: the Conquest of Freedom

5. Kafka: the Rationalizing Self

6. Kierkegaard: the Becoming of a Subject

7. Dostoyevski: the Quest for Love and Joy in Life

8. Naguib Mahfouz: the Search for an Egyptian Thou

9. Sartre: Rebellion in an Existential Hell

10. Buber: the Struggle for the Realization of Spirit

11. New Research Problems

12. Summary: Vision and Blindness

Appendix: Some Research Results

Notes

Bibliogaphical Essay

Index

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Preparing for Peace: Military Identity, Value Orientations, and Professional Military Education
by Volker Franke. 195 pgs.

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Franke examines the extent to which military socialization at the U.S. Military Academy prepares cadets cognitively for shifting missions. Assessing the dynamic relationship between identity, values, and attitudes, he shows the importance of individuals' identification with social groups for their behavioral choices.

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Figures and Tables

Foreword

Preface

1: Global Security After the Cold War

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2: Resolving Identity Tensions

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3: Military Identity: Old Ammo in New Weapons?

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4: Duty, Honor, Country: the West Point Experience

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5: Learning Peace: Value Orientations of West Point Cadets

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6: The Social Identities of West Point Cadets

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7: Professional Military Education: from Student to Officer

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8: Warriors for Peace: Socializing Military Leaders for Shifting Roles

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References

Index

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Peace as a Women's Issue: A History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women's Rights
by Harriet Hyman Alonso. 342 pgs.

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1: Coming to Terms

2: Developing a Feminist-Pacifist Consciousness, 1820-1914

3: Suffragist-Pacifists versus the Great War, 1914-1919

4: Former Suffragists for Peace During the Interwar Years, 1919-1935

5: Dilemmas, Quandaries, and Tensions During War, 1935-1945

6: The Effects of McCarthyism on Feminist-Pacifists, 1945-1960

7: From Civil Rights to the Second Wave of the Feminist Movement, 1960-1975

8: Feminist Peace Activism and the United Nations' Decade for Women, 1975-1985

9: Conclusion

Appendix A: A Chronological Listing of U.S. Women's Rights Peace Organizations and Committees

Appendix B: A Partial Chronology of the Metropolitan New York Branch of WILPF

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Selected Bibliography

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The Peace Revolution: Ethos and Social Process
by John Somerville. 244 pgs.

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Preface

1: Revolution and Peace

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2: The New Politics

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3: The New Economics

4: The New Morality

Notes

5: The New Education

6: The New Semantics

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7: The New Science of Peace

8: The New Relation to Technology

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9: The New Human Individual

10: Prospects and Conclusions

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Between War and Peace: A Handbook for Peace Workers
by Florence Brewer Boeckel. 600 pgs.

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FOREWORD

CONTENTS

PART I: INTRODUCTION

Chapter I: FOCUSING THE DEMAND FOR PEACE

PART II: MATERIAL OF INTEREST TO SPECIAL GROUPS

Chapter II: EDUCATION AND PEACE

Chapter III: THE CHURCH AND PEACE

Chapter IV: WOMEN AND PEACE

Chapter V: COMMERCE AND PEACE

Chapter VI: LABOR AND PEACE

Chapter VII: FARMERS AND PEACE

Chapter VIII: WAR VETERANS AND WORLD PEACE

Chapter IX: YOUNG PEOPLE AND WORLD PEACE

PART III: INTRODUCTION TO FURTHER STUDY OF INFLUENCES FOR AND AGAINST WORLD PEACE

Chapter X: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE INTER NATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION

Chapter XI: THE WORLD COURT

Chapter XII: THE OUTLAWRY OF WAR AND THE KELLOGG TREATY

Chapter XIII: THE ARBITRATION OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES

Chapter XIV: INTERNATIONAL LAW

Chapter XV: INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Chapter XVI: INTERNATIONAL REDUCTION OF ARMAMENTS

Chapter XVII: PACIFISM AND THE ABSOLUTE PACIFIST POSITION

Chapter XVIII: THE MILITARY POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES PAST AND PRESENT

Chapter XIX: THE MONROE DOCTRINE

Chapter XX: IMPERIALISM

Chapter XXI World Population and the Immigration Policy of the United States

Chapter XXII: THE WAR-MAKING POWER IN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Chapter XXIII: WAR DEBTS AND REPARATIONS

Chapter XXV: WHAT WAR COSTS

PART IV: MATERIALS FOR A WORKING PROGRAM

Chapter XXVI: WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR PEACE

ORGANIZATIONS WORKING FOR PEACE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHIES ON SPECIAL SUBJECTS

APPENDIX

INDEX
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Peace Education in an Urban School District in the United States, in PJE: Peabody Journal of Education
by Ian M. Harris. 21 pgs.

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Peace Education in Postcolonial Africa, in PJE: Peabody Journal of Education
by Birgit Brock-Utne. 21 pgs.

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Exploring Peace Education in South African Settings, in PJE: Peabody Journal of Education
by Valerie Dovey. 23 pgs.

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Early Tendencies of Peace Education in Sweden, in PJE: Peabody Journal of Education
by Bengt Thelin. 16 pgs.

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Educational Violence and Education for Peace in Africa, in PJE: Peabody Journal of Education
by Clive Harber. 19 pgs.

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Relationships between Problem-Solving Competencies and Militaristic Attitudes: Implications for Peace Education, in Peace and Conflict
by Linden L. Nelson, Thomas W. Milburn. 20 pgs.

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Conflict Resolution Education: A Solution for Peace, in Communications and the Law
by Melinda G. Lincoln. 12 pgs.

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