Description
| Product ID: | 9780190217136 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Invitation to Peace Studies |
| Authors: | Author: Houston Wood |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Peace studies and conflict resolution, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Social and political philosophy, Military and defence strategy, Military vehicles, Social & political philosophy, Defence strategy, planning & research, Military aircraft, 21st century |
| Description: | Invitation to Peace Studies is an engaging and accessible introductory textbook designed for diverse courses that examine conflict, nonviolence, peace, or violence. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-08-06 |
