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By all accounts Quincy Wright was a 'great man'. He has been called the 'founding father' of the academic field of International Relations, a 'teacherpar excellence,' and a 'painstaking and indefatigable scholar'. Wright's students and colleagues have extolled him as 'exceptionally learned', the 'father of "peace research"', and the 'prophet of a new world order'. Such praise is scarcely hyperbolic. Indeed, during his eighty years (1890–1970), Quincy Wright followed a 'continuous and omnivorous regime … in assimilating vast bodies of human knowledge'. Combining broad theoretical interests with a concern for policy and problem-oriented inquiry, he 'explored the boundaries, asked the questions, pointed the directions, and set the standards for the [International Relations] profession not only in the United States, but in the world at large'. In his ambitious quest to ascertain the causes of war and peace, Wright drew liberally from the insights of many disciplines, and in so doing produced a formidable corpus of scholarly writing virtually unrivalled in its scope and breadth.

AbstractFamily Peacemakers is a proposed design for an extended mediation program for youth offenders during probation. Derived from ecological developmental theory, family and school behavioral research, transformative mediation, and a cognitive perspective change model, the program objectives include both the offenders' success in meeting the conditions of their probation and lifestyle changes. A variety of mediation programs is employed, including family mediation, individual mediator training for mothers and offenders, and video feedback training. The acquisition of conflict resolution skills is measured by participants' performance in mediation programs. It is predicted that to the extent that youth offenders and family members adequately perform specific probation requirements in home and school and to the extent that they acquire competency in conflict resolution skills and share conflict resolution procedures, they will achieve success in probation, make advances in their core relationships, experience lifestyle change, and prevent recidivism.

Enthält u.a. Rezensionen: Richardson, Bonham C.: The Caribbean in the wider world, 1492-1992. - Cambridge : Univ. of Cambridge Press, 1992. - 235 S