Relationship of peace attitudes with personality traits, gender and age groups Objective: Aim of this study is to examine the associations between attitudes towards peace and personality traits, gender and different age groups. Method: A total of 236 individuals, of whom 118 were adolescents and 118 were elders (111 males and 125 females), completed the NEO Five Factor Inventory and the Peace A...

In post-conflict and transitional settings, adolescents are important civic political actors as potential peacebuilders. Policy programming often focus on promoting prosocial outcomes for these younger generations, but there has been growing attention to their perspectives psychological development. Drawing theory in developmental psychology, interpret respond context forming ideas about key co...

A peace process almost always acts as the catalyst to transition from conflict. In reality, the peace process is usually dominated by peace negotiations between the main contending parties who are able to direct the content and progress of the movement towards peace. However, as conflicts rarely reduce into bilateral disputes, the elite nature of peace talks can exclude or ignore broader, cross...

Recent studies show that the democratic peace correlation is not significant once the potentially confounding variable that can cause both democracy and peace, contract-intensive economy, is considered; this pattern holds in analyses of wars, fatal militarized interstate conflicts (Mousseau 2009), and interstate crises (Mousseau et al. 2013). These studies rescind the primary evidence for democ...

This article addresses the topics of peace and security in the context of human development and explores their various meanings and manifestations at the national and international levels. First, it defines the concept of peace, suggesting that peace is not simply the absence of violence (negative peace) but includes the structural conditions that create positive peace in a society. Next, the a...

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...

environmental crisis of the planet have caused a sever anxiety among people, some blame population growth, and other new technologies for the ongoing crisis. but, it is believed that misuse of technology, greed, and obnoxious attitude of man are the main causes of environmental crisis. in this paper, the causes of the crisis are elucidated, and a remedy, is proposed, that is to encourage enviro...