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Abstract. This paper begins by giving an overview of why and in which ways social psychological research can be relevant to peace. Galtung's (1969) distinction between negative peace (the absence of direct violence) and positive peace (the absence of structural violence, or the presence of social justice) is crossed with a focus on factors that are detrimental (obstacles) to peace versus factors that are conducive to peace (catalysts), yielding a two-by-two classification of social psychological contributions to peace. Research falling into these four classes is cited in brief, with a particular focus on four exemplary topics: support for military interventions as an obstacle to negative peace; antiwar activism as a catalyst of negative peace; ideologies legitimizing social inequality as an obstacle to positive peace; and commitment to human rights as a catalyst of positive peace. Based on this conceptual framework, the remaining six articles of the special issue "Social Psychology and Peace" are briefly introduced.

The UN estimates that there are 2.4 Million IDPs in Darfur -- over one third of the total population. There can be no meaningful peace process without their involvement. Giving IDPs a formal seat in official peace negotiations is problematic but there are other ways to ensure their participation. Adapted from the source document.

'Angola: Struggle for Peace and Reconstruction' by Inge Tvedten is reviewed. A book review of Angola: Struggle for Peace and Reconstruction by Inge Tvedten is presented.

Our study was premised on a collective curiosity to understand why peace studies classrooms are filled with mostly women students. We put this investigation into conversation with the substantive body of peace studies literature that correlates militarism and sexism. We learned the following: The experience of marginalization led many women to take peace studies courses; many women learners noted how empathy was affirmed in peace studies; socialization of men discouraged men from peace studies; there are both strengths and limitations of classrooms replete with women; and finally, there is a societal devaluation of peace studies. Ultimately, we argue that it is paramount to name the dynamic of women‐dominated peace studies classrooms and to infuse discussions on gender and intersectional feminism into a peace studies curriculum, and we affirm a broader call for re‐socialization in which people of a variety of gender identities and expressions are encouraged to comprehend the value of peace studies.

"Feminist Contributions and Challenges to Peace Studies" published on by Oxford University Press.

A member of an unofficial Soviet peace organisation — the 'Group to Establish Trust' — managed to speak at a seminar run by the Soviet Peace Committee. Her account illustrates the difficulties of testing the limits of Gorbachev's policy of glasnost and it was published in Moscow in the first issue of a new unofficial magazine entitled — appropriately — Glasnost