Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict, And Terrorism - Couverture souple

Staub, Ervin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199775249 ISBN 13 : 9780199775248

Editeur : Oxford University Press, Usa, 2013

Synopsis

Overcoming Evil Overcoming Evil describes the origins of genocide, violent conflict and terrorism, principles and practices of prevention, and avenues to reconciliation. It considers societal conditions, culture and insitutions, and the psychology of individuals and groups. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Winner of the 2013 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award. Winner of the International Society of Political Psychology Alexander George Book Award. Overcoming Evil identifies the root causes of genocide, violent conflict, and terrorism, informed by Ervin Staub's 30 years in the field. An understanding of these root causes is essential for mapping ways to move beyond violence. In this landmark volume, Staub lays out principles and practices to prevent violence, halt ongoing violence, and promote reconciliation to prevent the recurrence of violence. In analyzing violence, Staub considers difficult conditions of life, conflict, repression, culture, the institutions of society, individual and group psychology, the evolution of violence, and the behavior of witnesses or bystanders within and outside societies. To move beyond violence, it is necessary to humanize the other, to heal from past victimization, and develop cultures and institutions that help curb violence. The book considers how all this can be accomplished, and how caring values and moral courage for action can develop.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ervin Staub has taught at Harvard and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has studied the influences that lead caring, helping, altruism in adults and children, the origins of genocide and other mass violence, the prevention of violence between groups and reconciliation after violence. He published extensively on these topics. He has also worked in many real world settings, on projects ranging from reconciliation and the prevention of new violence in Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo, to reducing the use of unnecessary force by police, to creating caring classrooms.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, Usa
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199775249
• ISBN 13: 9780199775248
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 600