| Invitation to Peace Studies Contributor(s): Wood, Houston (Author) |
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ISBN: 0190217138 ISBN-13: 9780190217136 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $101.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Peace |
| Dewey: 303.66 |
| LCCN: 2015008425 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 7.5" W x 9.1" (1.20 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |