Overview

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.

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Author:   Houston Wood (Professor of English, Professor of English, Hawai'i Pacific University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.10cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.10cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780190217136

ISBN 10:   0190217138
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   06 August 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface: 1. Invitations to Peace Work Part One: The Global Peace Network 2. Peace Concepts, Disputes, and Confusions 3. Peace Networks: Benefits and Challenges 4. Trends in Violence, Terrorism, and War 5. Building Gender Security Part Two: From Violence to Nonviolence 6. Interstate War and Peace 7. The Rise of Nonviolence and Human Rights 8. Nonviolent Power, Methods, and Strategies 9. Religious Influences Part Three: Disciplinary Perspectives 10. Biological Foundations 11. Peace Psychology 12. The Sociology of Violence 13. Inner and Outer Peace Work Appendix: Selected Secular Peace Organizations: Glossary: References: Index:

Reviews

Invitation to Peace Studies is a fantastic textbook from start to finish. It fills a gap in the existing group of textbooks on the topic and is truly needed. Walton Brown Foster, Central Connecticut State University I like the author's approach, particularly the premise that an invitation to peace is something that can and is made by many. 'Peace is something for all of us and not just for the saintly' is a wonderful message for students (and the broader public) to hear. Greg Carroll, Salem State University Invitation to Peace Studies will prove to be an irresistible invitation in the marketplace of Peace Studies. Clement E. Adibe, DePaul University

Author Information

Houston Wood teaches peace studies at Hawai'i Pacific University. He is the author of Native Features: Indigenous Films from Around the World (2008) and Displacing Natives: The Rhetorical Production of Hawai'i (1999) and the coauthor, with Hugh Mehan, of The Reality of Ethnomethodology (1983).

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