Putting Peace into Practice

Evaluating Policy on Local and Global Levels

• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 212
• ISBN_10: 9004458778
  ISBN_13: 9789004458772
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Philosophy / Political , Social Science / General , Political Science / International Relations / Diplomacy , History / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Political Science / History & Theory , Political Science / Peace ,

Description:... 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.