Suchergebnisse

Global Environmental Change and Sustainability Transition -- Climate Change and Sustainable Development Goals -- The Larger Challenge -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions and Credits -- Part I Moving towards Sustainability Transition -- Chapter 1 Sustainability Transition and Sustainable Peace: Scientific and Policy Context, Scientific Concepts and Dimensions -- Chapter 2 Contextual Changes in Earth History: From the Holocene to the Anthropocene - Implications for Sustainable Development and for Strategies of Sustainable Transition

"Invitation to Peace Studies is the first textbook in the field to emphasize 21st-century topics and the latest empirical research, as well as the first to prominently apply a gender perspective to the topics of peace, war, and violence. The book covers traditional peace studies' concerns with interstate wars while offering an equal emphasis on intrastate wars, group- and gender-based violence, and on the many nonviolent movements which have shaped recent world history. Clear and accessible language invites students to become more frequent and effective peace promoters in their own everyday lives. Dozens of case studies and textboxes foreground contemporary topics such as climate change, cyber warfare, digital activism, drones and robots, the occupy movement, peace ecology, positive psychology, religion and violence, and terrorism"--