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How Children Understand War and Peace (Hardcover)

By: Amiram Raviv (Editor), Daniel Bar-Tal (Editor) and Louis Oppenheimer (Editor)

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"This landmark book will help open the way to advances in research on the development of children's conceptions of peace and on the practice of peace education." (Milton Schwebel, editor, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology)


"I welcome this important new book. The editors and contributors have given us a new and valuable account of how young people understand the essential issues of war and peace. Not only is this a large step forward in the study of child and adolescent social cognition, but, in addition, the knowledge base in this book suggests ways to educate the younger generation toward more peaceful resolutions of dangerous social conflicts." (William Damon, professor and director, Stanford Center on Adolescence)


"The first comprehensive overview of current research on children's understanding of peace, conflict, and war, this book shows the richness of children's understanding in its sociocultural context. It challenges us to think deeply about the connections between human development, war, and peace and about how to educate for a culture of peace." (Michael G. Wessells, professor of psychology, Randolph-Macon College)


"This comprehensive book discusses research on how peace, conflict, and war are interpreted by youngsters from different cultures and how such knowledge can help educators contribute to building peace. Anyone interested in peace and conflict, child development, and education will find many useful insights and a wealth of diverse approaches for working with children in this important new book." (?ke Bjerstedt, professor emeritus of education, Lund University, Sweden)

Publisher's note

How Children Understand War and Peace is a landmark book that examines these two vital questions and provides a solid framework on which to build answers. Written by an international panel of experts in the fields of developmental, social, and educational psychology, How Children Understand War and Peace presents a collection of the most current thoughts and insights into how children and adolescents develop an understanding of war, conflict, and peace.

Based on research studies done in Australia, Canada, Finland, Holland, Israel, Portugal, Northern Ireland, Sweden, and the United States, this comprehensive volume presents evidence that perceptions of war and peace formed during childhood relate directly to adult perspectives on these critical issues. The contributors present persuasive evidence that our knowledge about how youngsters from around the globe develop and form worldviews can be used to create educational programs that teach children peace education, conflict management, and conflict resolution.

If we better understood how children and adolescents develop ideas about war, conflict, and peace, might we be able to consciously influence these concepts toward more peaceful orientations? Could we then integrate the findings into school systems throughout the world? This important collection takes on these two vital questions and provides a solid framework on which to build answers. How Children Understand War and Peace draws insights from researchers in developmental, social, and educational psychology from the United States, Canada, Norway, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Australia, Portugal, and Israel. It provides a large-scale international view of the origins of war, suggests approaches educators can take to bring peace education programs into schools, and offers hope for a more peaceful future.

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An examination of how children and teenagers develop an understanding of the concepts of war and peace. Also discussed is how understanding a young person's thoughts on conflict could help adults influence the next generation into leading more peaceful lives.

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