The Web of violence : from interpersonal to global / edited by Jennifer Turpin and Lester R. Kurtz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Turpin, Jennifer E.

Kurtz, Lester R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence.

Violence--Psychological aspects.

Violence--Prevention.

Physical Description:

244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1997]

Summary:

'The Web of Violence' explores the interrelationship among personal, collective, national, and global levels of violence. This unique collection brings together a number of internationally known contributors to address the genesis and manifestations of violence in the search for a remedy for this confounding social problem.

Contents:

Doubling : the Faustian bargain / Robert Jay Lifton

Religion and the legitimation of violence : conservative Protestantism and corporal punishment / Christopher Ellison and John Bartkowski

The counterrevolution : a family of crimes / Yuan-Horng Chu

Civil society and violence : narrative forms and the regulation of social conflict / Philip Smith

Culture of violent solutions / Robert Elias

Linking the micro and macro in peace and development studies / Birgit Brock-Utne

Human rights and violence : integrating private and public spheres / Riane Eisler

Is there a therapy for pathological cosmologies? / Johan Galtung

Untangling the web of violence / Lester R. Kurtz and Jennifer Turpin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0252022610

0252065611

OCLC:

34076999