Abstract

AbstractThe relationships between psychology and peace studies, often called peace and conflict studies, are, like the disciplines themselves, complex, significant, sometimes contested, and in process. Peace studies emerged after World War II and is largely a response by people in higher education to the nuclear age and the Cold War. It is also a child of peace, antiwar, and social justice movements, and has shifting relationships with peace education, peacekeeping, peace movements, and peace and conflict research. Similarly, what is now known as peace psychology is also a product of the Cold War and its termination, when the perceived threat to global peace posed by nuclear weapons was at its peak.

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