Putting Peace into Practice: Evaluating Policy on Local and Global Levels: 164 - Brossura

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9789042018631: Putting Peace into Practice: Evaluating Policy on Local and Global Levels: 164
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ISBN 10: 9042018631 ISBN 13: 9789042018631
Casa editrice: RODOPI, 2004

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This book examines the role and limits of policies in shaping attitudes and actions toward war, violence, and peace. Authors examine militaristic language and metaphor, effects of media violence on children, humanitarian intervention, sanctions, peacemaking, sex offender treatment programs, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, community, and political forgiveness to identify problem policies and develop better ones.

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Informazioni sull?autore

NANCY NYQUIST POTTER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. She is an executive board member of International Philosophers for Peace and co-organized the World Peace Meet in Calcutta, India, in 1999. She teaches courses on the nature of violence, philosophies of peace, ethics, feminist theory, and philosophy of mental illness. She is also a board member of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry and is interested in intersections between mental health, culture, and violence. She is the author of How Can I Be Trusted? A Virtue Theory of Trustworthiness, a book that examines relationships between trust and power.

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Editore
RODOPI
Data di pubblicazione
2004
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
9042018631
ISBN 13 
9789042018631
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
212
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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