Psychology of Peace Promotion

Mary Gloria C. Njoku, DDL was  Professor & Dean, School of Postgraduate Studies,  Godfrey Okoye University, in Thinkers Corner, Enugu, Nigeria. During her lifetime, Mary Gloria was involved in several peace promotion projects such as the annual youth peace conference started in 2011. This conference brought together people from varied backgrounds to learn about peace and generate action plans.Leonard A. Jason, Ph.D, is a  Professor of Psychology, and Director of the Center for Community Research, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA. For over 40 years, he has been developing community psychology interventions, many of which have focused on peace promotion, such as his work with residents of substance use recovery homes. Burke Johnson, Ph.D., is a Professor of Education, University of South Alabama,  College of Education, Mobile, AL USA. He is theauthor/coauthor/coeditor of 6 books on research methodology, which focus on analysis in social/behavioral/business/health sciences. His current emphasis is Mixed Methods Research, as illustrated in his chapter in this volume.

• 1.Promoting Peace through Mindfulness.- 2.Mindfulness and Peace.- 3.Empathic Assessment Heuristic.- 4.Promoting a Peaceful Generation through Parenting, Education, and Civic Engagement .- 5.Raising a Peaceful Generation.- 6.Finding Light In the Barrios of Caracas: A Peace-Promotion Initiative with Marginalized Youth.- 7.Cultural Scars and Lost Innocence.  The Psychology of the African Child: Debasement and Renewal.- 8.Peace Education.- 9.Developmental Psychology and Peace.- 10.Diversity and Peace.- 11.Social Networks that Promote Peace .- 12.Making Humanitarian Organizations/Programs Culturally Relevant for Minority Population within the Middle East.- 13.Violence within Corrections: The Intersection of Feminist Criminology, Peace, Psychology and Human Rights.- 14.Diversity and Human Rights.- 15.Traditional Methods of Promoting Peace in Southwest and Southeast, Nigeria.- 16.Promoting Peace through Religious Strategies.- 17.Truth, Forgiving, and Reconciling: Pathways to Peace and the Context of Refugees.- 18.Forgiveness and Peace.- 19.Social Justice and Peace.- 20.Creating and Sustaining Peace through Storytelling.- 21.Turning Problems into Potential: Positive Social Movement Dynamics.- 22.Environmental Psychology and Peace.- 23.Peace Research by Peaceful Means.