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For individual health, healing professionals study first the causes and effects of disease, then how to treat them. A similar quest for recovery - but of societal health - is the focal point of this text. The first theme of the book is the causes and effects of violence. Next is the study of treatment, which in this case means the causes and effects of behaviour designed to counter violence. Further study of treatment is presented in problem-solving approaches to real-world situations.

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?This accurately titled and well-written survey of peace psychology provides an excellent introduction for general readers or undergraduate students. In addition to an informed discussion of the psychological causes and effects of violence and nonviolence, MacNair provides a useful chronology of peace psychology, a list of references, and a detailed index....Attractive features of the book include its lack of jargon and its clear delineation of the various approaches to conflict from the interpersonal to the international level. Highly recommended. General readers and undergraduates.?-Choice

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RACHEL M. MACNAIR is Director of the Institute for Integrated Social Analysis, a research organization which specializes in the connections between various social issues and violence. She is the author of Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress: The Psychological Consequences of Killing (Praeger, 2002).

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