The efforts of peace-building and reconciliation between historical enemies are faced with many structural psychological obstacles. Scholars have identified mechanisms that can induce improvements in aspects intergroup relations, such as contact. However, establishing direct contact everyone is impossible. Therefore, the mass media represents an important source through which groups learn about...

aHRB Centre for Primary Care Research, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, bSchool of Pharmacy, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland and cSchool of Pharmacy, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland. *Correspondence to Patrick Redmond, Department of General Practice, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Beaux Lane House, Mercer Street, Dublin 2; E-mail: predm...

Media coverage and foreign policy around the globe often spread messages of fear about possible radicalization world's growing youth population. More nuance was brought into these debates in 2015 by UN Security Council Resolution 2250 subsequent Global Study on Youth, Peace, (Simpson 2018), while specific attention directed at potential education to support young people's agency for peacebuildi...

BACKGROUND A majority of people in Western Europe and the USA die in hospitals. Spiritual and existential care is seen to be an integral component of holistic, compassionate and comprehensive palliative care. Yet, several studies show that many nurses are anxious and uncertain about engaging in spiritual and existential care for the dying. The aim of this study is to describe nurses' experience...

Forty years of civil war have made the Afghan nation not just tired such internecine conflict but also demand an early end to human suffering in every form. The issue armed management was first mentioned inaugural Journal Conflict Resolution 1957 when Quincy Wright wrote that resolution international can be facilitated by national government efforts “to prevent tensions from arising and aggrava...

It has recently been argued that apparent peace between democracies may be the result of political similarity rather than joint democracy, and that there may exist an “autocratic peace” which is similar to the democratic peace. If political similarity generally is the cause of peace rather than joint democracy specifically, then the democratic peace is merely a statistical artifact that follows...

Although the literature in peace psychology has been growing rapidly, many American psychologists are unaware of how conflict is resolved and peace is conceptualized and achieved. This article reviews the long history and broadening scope of peace psychology and introduces a model of peace that is useful for organizing the literature. The model suggests that peace can be facilitated at four dif...

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