World Peace

Forcey writes in her introduction to this important new book that "More than forty years have passed since Albert Einstein prophesied unparalleled catastrophe were we not to change our modes of thinking. Learning how we should go about this is peace studies." This book explores the meanings of peace, including political approaches and strategies for better understanding and change from a wide range of ideological and philosophical perspectives. The chapters, by scholars of sociology, history, psychology, political science, and several interdisciplinary fields, pose challenging philosophical, ideological and pedagogical questions. The contributors encourage active thought about the complex interrelationship of the personal and systemic dimensions of peace.

"Professor Forsythe's attention to relations between peace and human rights opens new areas for analysis and synthesizes important information. This book confirms, once again, his eminent position as a scholar of human rights."-Claude E. Welch, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor, SUNY, Buffalo.As our world becomes a truly global village through instantaneous media transmission of events, the relationship between human rights and peaceful international relations receives more and more attention. David P. Forsythe's book analyzes and discusses the dimensions of cover and overt human rights violations and how they militate against the establishment of democracies in the Third World.Human Rights and Peace evaluates critically the argument that human rights in general and democracy in particular contribute to peaceful international relations.David P. Forsythe is a professor of political science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His publications include The Internationalization of Human Rights, The Politics of International Law, Human Rights and World Politics, and U. S. Foreign Policy.