Putting Peace into Practice
Evaluating Policy on Local and Global Levels
Paperback Engels 2004 9789042018631Samenvatting
This book examines the role and limits of policies in shaping attitudes and actions toward war, violence, and peace. Authors examine militaristic language and metaphor, effects of media violence on children, humanitarian intervention, sanctions, peacemaking, sex offender treatment programs, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, community, and political forgiveness to identify problem policies and develop better ones.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Nancy NYQUIST POTTER: Preface
PART ONE Communication and the Construction of Worldviews
Introduction
One William C. GAY: Public Policy Discourse on Peace
Two Ron HIRSCHBEIN: Massing the Tropes: Metaphors of Nuclear Strategy
Three Melissa BURCHARD: The Power of Entertainment: Violence in the Stories of Our Times
PART TWO The State and Its Apparatus: Worldviews in Practice
Introduction
Four Nancy NYQUIST POTTER: Can Sex Offenders Learn Victim Empathy in Prison?
Five Judith PRESLER: Justice, Difference, and Community
PART THREE Normative Dimensions of Interventionist Policies in the Global Domain
Introduction
Six Avery KOLERS: Self-Determination in a Cosmopolitan World
Seven Robert H. KIMBALL: Is “Humanitarian Intervention” an Oxymoron?
Eight Joseph C. KUNKEL: Applying Morality to the Economic Sanctions on Iraq
PART FOUR Alternative Responses to Conflict in the Global Domain
Introduction
Nine Beth J. SINGER: Nationalism and Dehostilization
Ten Jerald RICHARDS: Keys to Political Forgiveness in International Relations
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan
