Includes bibliographical references and index.

Peace education : setting the scene / Gavriel Salomon and Ed Cairns -- History of peace education / Ian Harris -- Peace education in societies involved in intractable conflicts : goals, conditions, and directions / Daniel Bar-Tal, Yigal Rosen, and Rafi Nets-Zehngut -- Educational sciences and peace education : mainstreaming peace education into (Western) academia? / Werner Wintersteiner -- What does peace psychology have to offer peace education? Five psychologically informed propositions / Daniel J. Christie and Richard V. Wagner -- The social psychology of intergroup relations / Nicole Tausch, Katharina Schmid, and Miles Hewstone -- Intergroup contact : implications for peace education / Eric W. Mania ... [et al.] -- Contributions of developmental psychology to peace education / Louis Oppenheimer -- Peace education and political science / Marc Howard Ross -- The contributions of communication and media studies to peace education / Donald Ellis and Yael Warshel -- Peace and morality : two children of the same parents / Fritz Oser, Christine Riegel, and Sibylle Steinmann -- Philosophy of peace education in a postmetaphysical era / Ilan Gur-Ze'ev -- Teaching about culture of peace as an approach to peace education / Joseph de Rivera -- Storytelling and multiple narratives in conflict situations : from the TRT group in the German-Jewish context to the dual-narrative approach of PRIME / Dan Bar-On -- The contribution of history teaching to peace building / Alan McCully -- Peace education in the classroom : creating effective peace education programs / David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson -- Building a shared future from a divided past : promoting peace through education in Northern Ireland / Tony Gallagher -- Unity-based peace education : education for peace program in Bosnia and Herzegovina : a chronological case study / H.B. Danesh -- Understanding the roots and impact of violence and psychological recovery as avenues to reconciliation after mass violence and intractable conflict : applications to national leaders, journalists, community groups, public education through radio, and children / Ervin Staub, Laurie Anne Pearlman, and Rezarta Bilali -- Peace education in regions of tranquillity / Ilse Hakvoort -- Educating for peace through planned encounters between Jews and Arabs in Israel : a reappraisal of effectiveness / Ifat Maoz -- Open-ended questions / Gavriel Salomon and Ed Cairns.