Handbook on Peace Education

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Handbook on Peace Education is written by Gavriel Salomon and published by Psychology Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1136874518 (ISBN 10) and 9781136874512 (ISBN 13).

This handbook encompasses a range of disciplines that underlie the field of peace education and provides the rationales for the ways it is actually carried out . The discipline is a composite of contributions from a variety of disciplines ranging from social psychology to philosophy and from communication to political science. That is, peace education is an applied subject which is practiced in differing ways, but must always be firmly based on a range of established empirical disciplines. The volume is structured around contributions from expert scholars in various fields that underpin peace education, plus contributions from experts in applying peace education in a range of settings, all complemented by chapters which deal with issues related to research and evaluation of peace education.