Pathways to Peace: The Transformative Power of Children and Families

Table of Contents

Foreword: The Culture of Peace

Anwarul K. Chowdhury

Foundations for a New Approach

1. Peace is a Lifelong Process: The Importance of Partnerships

James F. Leckman, Catherine Panter-Brick, and Rima Salah

​2. Framing Our Analysis: A Dialectical Perspective

Robert A. Hinde and Joan Stevenson-Hinde

​3. Ecology of Peace

Pia R. Britto, Ilanit Gordon, William Hodges, Diane Sunar, Cidgem Kagitcibasi, and James F. Leckman

​​Human Biological Development

4. Peptide Pathways to Peace

C. Sue Carter and Stephen W. Porges

​5. Epigenetics: Significance of the Gene-Environment Interface for Brain Development

Eric B. Keverne

​6. Group Identity as an Obstacle and Catalyst of Peace

Douglas P. Fry

7. Human Biological Development and Peace: Genes, Brains, Safety and Justice

​Barak Morgan, Diane Sunar, C. Sue Carter, James F. Leckman, Douglas P. Fry, Eric B. Keverne, Iris-Tatjana Kilassa, Robert Kumsta, and David Olds

​​Early Childhood Events and Relationships

8. Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives

Dario Maestripieri

9. The Problem of Institutionalization of Young Children and Its Consequences for Efforts to Build Peacful Societies

Nathan A. Fox, Charles A. Nelson, and Charles H. Zeanah

​10. Prosocial Development and Situational Morality: Neurobiological, Parental, and Contextual Factors

Marinus H. van IJzendoorn and Marian J. Bakersmans-Kranenburg

11. ​How Do Events and Relationships in Childhood Set the Stage for Peace at Personal and Social Levels?

Howard Steele, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, W. Thomas Boyce, Mary Dozier, Nathan A. Fox, Heidi Keller, Dario Maestripieri, Paul Odhiambo Oburu, and Hiltrud Otto

​Challenges in Society

12. Mental Health and Development among Children Living in Violent Conditions: Underlying Processes for Promoting Peace

Raija-Leena Punamaki

13. ​Structural Violence and Early Childhood Development

​Andrew Dawes and Amelia van der Merwe

​14. Promoting the Capacity for Peace in Early Childhood: Perspectives from Research on Resilience in Children and Families

Ann S. Masten

15. Healthy Human Development as a Path to Peace

Daniel J. Christie, Catherine Panter-Brick, Jere R. Behrman, James R. Cochrane, Andrew Dawes, Kirstin Both, Jacqueline Hayden, Ann S. Masten, Ilham Nasser, Raija-Leena Punamaki, and Mark Tomlinson

​​Program and Policy Implications

16. Interventions: What Has Worked and Why?

Cigdem Kagitcibasi and Pia R. Britto

17. Linking Peacebuilding and Child Development: A Basic Framework

Mohammed Abu-Nimer and Ilham Nassser

18. Creating Effective Programs and Policies to Reduce Violence and Promote Peace

Pia R. Britto, Rima Salah, Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Jacqueline Bhabha, Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Gary R. Gunderson, Cigdem Kagitcibasi, Lucy Nusseibeh, Olayinka Omigbodun, Mikko Otani, and Geraldine Smyth

Endorsements