...Albert Corredor; Erick Oswaldo Salazar Montoya; Sebastián Cardona-Acevedo; Jackeline Valencia; Blas Felipe Peña Ortega; Alejandro Valencia-Arias; Lilian Verde Flores Purpose This study synthesises evidence on peace education curricula implemented in territories affected by armed violence...

...Rodgen Marginado Jabor Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the understanding and observance of the program “This School is a Zone of Peace” (SZOP) in schools where conflict and violence are not prevalent. Design/methodology/approach This paper followed a qualitative research...

...Sara Zamir Purpose The purpose of this research was to study the manifestation of peace and war in the poems included in the new literature curriculum for the junior high school students in Israel. Design/methodology/approach Content analysis. Findings The results of the research...

...Rodgen Marginado Jabor Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how learners view peace and their role in peacebuilding. Peace is widely perceived as the absence of war and violence (Castro and Galace, 2010). The literature revealed that youths play an active role in peacebuilding...

... in social restructuring but also in the evolutionary origin of the human being. Research limitations/implications More empirical evidence should be found in this regard. Originality/value This study is a multidisciplinary approach that seeks to understand both the phenomenon of violence and peace...

...Ibrahim Sakawa Magara Purpose The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has been mediating the South Sudan conflict since 2013. IGAD’s intervention in South Sudan is anchored on its founding norm of peaceful settlement of regional conflicts and in reference to the principle...

...Daniel Capistrano; Seaneen Sloan; Jennifer Symonds; Elena Samonova; Ciaran Sugrue; Dympna Devine Purpose This paper aims to discuss the construction of two composite indices to assess children’s experiences with violence and peace in primary schools in Sierra Leone. Design/methodology/approach...

... practiced in different communities have similar features in terms of purpose and practices. For instance, the main purpose of most indigenous conflict resolution mechanisms is not to punish rather their purpose is to restore previous peaceful interactions (Tarekegn, 2008). Besides, the practices of most...

...,” “Counter victimisation narratives of herding communities” and “strategies of survival.” These themes were thematically analyzed in line with the stated objectives of the study. Violence Conflict Victimization Peace Internal displacement Resource conflict Parties to conflict may claim...

...Haishang Wu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to promote communication by using music, and through mutual understanding and culture exchange to establish world peace. Design/methodology/approach The research explains why music promotes world peace and gives examples through empirical...

...Herbert H. Blumberg; Ruth Zeligman; Liat Appel; Shira Tibon-Czopp Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between major personality dimensions and attitudes towards peace and war. Design/methodology/approach Three samples – two consisting of British psychology students...

...Janja Mikulan Kildi; Victor Cepoi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of security challenges in the selected states in Eurasia and Central and Eastern Europe from the perspective of peace and politics. Since the security situation differs significantly across the sub-regions...

... on 148 cases of lethal aggression. The specifics of the lethal aggression cases are then discussed vis-à-vis the four myths to demonstrate the disjuncture between the data and the myths. Findings – All four myths are found to be out of step with actual data on nomadic forager war and peace...

...Yair Galily; Joel Rookwood Purpose – Peace promotion can include culturally relevant community programming. Some agencies have used sports such as football, for example, as a vehicle for fostering social development in fractured societies. This paper explores a football project implemented...

...Bruce D. Bonta Purpose Peaceful societies, groups of people described by social scientists as experiencing little if any internal or external violence, embrace the need for peacefulness, in contrast to most of the contemporary world, which accepts violence as normal and inevitable. The purpose...

... learning (Heckmann, 2004). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Terrorists Victims Peace Support Violent extremism Resolution Terrorism Behaviour Violence Conciliation There have been numerous incidents of terrorism and violent extremism on a global scale, in the past...

... built into our biology, an inescapable, inevitable curse that at best can only be managed and mitigated? © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 War Peace Civil disobedience Gandhi Gender equality To abolish war Judith L Hand Founder and Director, AFutureWithoutWar.org ABSTRACT...

... for carers programme elivered by carers from both sides of the border were successful initiatives in bringing together people from both sides of the political divide in Northern Ireland, and in linking them with people from the Republic of Ireland. Peace and reconciliation in Ireland: a cross-border approach...

... the complexity of challenging political violence by identifying common ground among different disciplines and putting scholarly research in dialogue with recent developments in war and peace across the globe. This article describes the cultural, political and institutional dimensions that sustain violence...

...Douglas Fry Cross‐cultural studies show that most, but not all, human societies engage in warfare. Some non‐warring societies cluster as peace systems. The existence of peace systems, and non‐warring societies more generally, shows that warfare is not an inevitable feature of human social life...