Putting peace into practice : : evaluating policy on local and global levels / / edited by Nancy Nyquist Potter.

• Superior document: Value inquiry book series ; Volume 164
• TeilnehmendeR: Potter, Nancy Nyquist, 1954-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series ; Volume 164.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Joseph C. KUNKEL : Editorial Foreword -- Nancy NYQUIST POTTER: Preface -- PART ONE Communication and the Construction of Worldviews -- Introduction -- One William C. GAY: Public Policy Discourse on Peace -- Two Ron HIRSCHBEIN: Massing the Tropes: Metaphors of Nuclear Strategy -- Three Melissa BURCHARD: The Power of Entertainment: Violence in the Stories of Our Times -- PART TWO The State and Its Apparatus: Worldviews in Practice -- Introduction -- Four Nancy NYQUIST POTTER: Can Sex Offenders Learn Victim Empathy in Prison? -- Five Judith PRESLER: Justice, Difference, and Community -- PART THREE Normative Dimensions of Interventionist Policies in the Global Domain -- Introduction -- Six Avery KOLERS: Self-Determination in a Cosmopolitan World -- Seven Robert H. KIMBALL: Is "Humanitarian Intervention" an Oxymoron? -- Eight Joseph C. KUNKEL: Applying Morality to the Economic Sanctions on Iraq -- PART FOUR Alternative Responses to Conflict in the Global Domain -- Introduction -- Nine Beth J. SINGER: Nationalism and Dehostilization -- Ten Jerald RICHARDS: Keys to Political Forgiveness in International Relations -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index.