The plurality and subjectivity of peace means that transitions from war are contested – i.e. permeated by conflicts between previously warring antagonists who want to (re)order postwar society according competing peace(s). But while there always will exist mutually excluding peace(s), such outliers do not foreclose middle grounds where multiple peace(s) can coexist. In this article, I argue the...

The contributions of American psychologists to war have been substantial and responsive to changes in U.S. national security threats and interests for nearly 100 years. These contributions are identified and discussed for four periods of armed conflict: World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and the Global War on Terror. In contrast, about 50 years ago, largely in reaction to the threat of nuclear ...

Guided by Ericson’s counter-law analytic, the focus of this thesis is how peace bonds erode traditional principles of criminal law to govern risk and provide applicants with a “freedom from fear” (Ericson, 2007a). Peace Bonds, proscribed under s. 810 of the Criminal Code of Canada, permit the courts to impose a recognizance on anyone likely to cause harm or “personal injury” to a complainant. D...

We build a model for predicting civil wars where the government bargains with an opposition group using concessions and repression. The equilibrium is either a state of perpetual peace where there are only concessions and no repression, or the equilibrium leads to civil wars, where the concessions are lower and repression higher as compared to the peace equilibrium. An initial movement towards ...

Th e rapid economic rise of China, India, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) could have several eff ects on regional peace and global security. Th e power transition perspective overstates the risk of confl ict that results from convergence between dominant and challenger states. Rapid changes in economic and military capabilities can, however, have negative consequences for...

There has been considerable academic debate about the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) peace and security architecture. Nevertheless, this article aspires to augment current literature on improving peace and security in Southern Africa, as well as to provide new insights into the study of conflict management and peace-building. Primarily, this essay identifies the raison d'être b...

Media coverage of third party peace initiatives [1] a case of peace journalism? Inhalt 1. Media and conflict escalation 1 2. Media coverage of alternative ways to settle the Gulf War 2 2.1 Method 2 2.2 Empirical results 5 3. Limitations of quantitative analysis 7 4. Media coverage of third party peace initiatives 8 4.1 Method 8 Though the coverage of alternatives to violence can be regarded as ...

INTRODUCTION A considerable segment of the elderly population in Iran is illiterate, and it seems the existing neuropsychological screening tests are not very useful for detecting dementia in illiterate participants. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a tool called Persian test of Elderly for Assessment of Cognition and Executive function (PEACE) for detecting dementia in bot...

Capitalism has emerged as a force for peace in studies of interstate conflict. Is capitalism also a force for peace within nations? This article shows how a market-capitalist economy—one where most citizens normally obtain their livelihoods contracting in the market—creates citizen-wide preferences for universal freedom, peace, and the democratic rule of law. Prior research has corroborated the...

Our tempestuous times are in desperate need of Peace. We live on a small planet; threatened by common enemies such as global warming, AIDS, super-bugs, environmentally-rooted diseases, crime, suicides, school-shootings, road-rage, hate, and above all else – indifference. We are all in the same "sinking boat". No longer can we afford to antagonize one another. We need all our global human resour...