Table of Contents
List of Contributors ix
Foreword xiRobert M.Sapolsky
Acknowledgments xv
1 The Nature of Peace 1Peter Verbeek and Benjamin A. Peters
Part One Proximate Causation 15
2 A Social‐Psychological Perspective on the Proximate Causation of Peaceful Behavior: The Needs‐Based Model of Reconciliation 17Nurit Shnabel
3 Inclusion as a Pathway to Peace: The Psychological Experiences of Exclusion and Inclusion in Culturally Diverse Social Settings 35Sabine Otten, Juliette Schaafsma, and Wiebren S. Jansen
4 The Peacekeeping and Peacemaking Role of Chimpanzee Bystanders 53Teresa Romero
5 The Experiential Peacebuilding Cycle: Grassroots Diplomacy, Environmental Education, and Environmental Norms 73Saleem H. Ali and Todd Walters
Part Two Development 93
6 The Developmental Niche for Peace 95Darcia Narvaez
7 Children’s Peacekeeping and Peacemaking 113Cary J. Roseth
8 The Role of Relationships in the Emergence of Peace 133Ellen Furnari
9 Reintegration of Former Child Soldiers: Communal Approaches to Healing the Wounds and Building Peace in Postconflict Societies 153Michael Wessells and Kathleen Kostelny
Part Three Function 171
10 Keeping the Peace or Enforcing Order? Overcoming Social Tension Between Police and Civilians 173Otto Adang, Sara Stronks, Misja van de Klomp, and Gabriel van den Brink
11 Constitutions as Peace Systems and the Function of the Costa Rican and Japanese Peace Constitutions 191Benjamin A. Peters
12 Exploring the Village Republic: Gandhi’s Oceanic Circles as Decentralized Peace Systems 211Joám Evans Pim
13 Building Peace Benefits 231Daniel Hyslop and Thomas Morgan
Part Four Evolution 247
14 The Evolutionary Logic of Human Peaceful Behavior 249Douglas P. Fry
15 Trans‐Species Peacemaking: Our Evolutionary Heritage 267Harry Kunneman
16 Natural Peace 287Peter Verbeek
Index 321