...This chapter presents Richard Levins' account of his life and career. Topics covered include Levins' recollections about his childhood; his introduction to Puerto Rico through his wife, Rosario Morales, in 1951; his involvement in the ongoing Cuban struggle for ecological agriculture and economic...

... situations besides illness? It concludes that there is an association between childhood trauma and psychosis but they are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Bentall Richard P Disorder Schizophrenia Continuum hypothesis Hallucination Illusion Jaspers Karl Pseudohallucination and true hallucination...

... Mardu Western Desert society Upper Xingu peoples Western Desert peoples leadership children’s rights culture of peace child rearing conflict resolution future research needs trust social identity social organization non-warring peace systems global citizenship childhood development Social...

... attachment cortisol future research needs oxytocin institutionalization brain development regulation of emotions early childhood interventions Institutionalization of children is a worldwide problem. The consequences of these deprived early experiences have been known for some time. Indeed...

...This chapter highlights concepts, approaches, findings, and controversies from studies of resilience to inform and promote pathways to peace in early childhood. These include a relational developmental systems perspective on peace; an emphasis on positive goals, processes, and pathways; and issues...

...This chapter examines potential pathways to peace based on the biological and social underpinnings of child development. It assesses child development in the context of familial and group relations and examines its potential role in building pathways to peace. Early childhood education and family...

... attention posttraumatic cognition Bronfenbrenner Urie ecological systems theory education underachievement traumatic play stress sympathetic nervous system amygdala cognitive behavioral therapy serotonin trust working memory reconciliation violence peacebuilding trauma childhood development...

... to distinct stages of childhood. Young human minds develop self-consciousness—in the broad sense of being conscious of the self's mental and behavioral relatedness to the world—because they face extraordinary and escalating sociocultural pressures that cannot be handled without setting in motion a complex...

... evidence supporting this common sense claim. The chapter first gives a general perspective on DSM that will be applied in looking at childhood psychiatric diagnoses and should be of some interest in its own right. I argue that there are some DSM based categorizations--those of major depressive disorder...

...This chapter focuses on early childhood experiences and how they may contribute to cooperative and peaceful behaviors and outcomes in the later childhood years and into adulthood. Five interrelated topics are explored: (a) universal tensions ever pushing us toward competition or cooperation; (b...

.... Provision of these services is seen as a social good and should be available to all, particularly those affected by structural violence. Published in the Strungmann Forum Reports Series. child health children’s rights direct violence early childhood development structural violence equity fairness...

...Early childhood interventions are implemented to make a difference in people’s lives, but demonstrating how they have worked is a challenge. Because many reported programs are conducted in high-income countries, results are neither representative nor balanced. This chapter reviews evidence obtained...

... childhood development. Published in the Strungmann Forum Reports Series. conflict resolution peacebuilding peace education Bronfenbrenner Urie children’s rights human development mental health education interventions multiple intelligences theory conflict cooperation early childhood development...

...This chapter focuses on the social and biological underpinnings of child development and its contexts to create effective programs and policies that will reduce violence and promote peace. It presents interconnected pathways and multilayered perspectives that link formative childhoods and peace...

...This chapter examines how auditory and visual asymmetries are integrated, and how there is a default right-sided bias for spatial perceptual and attentional capacity, which, it argues, is multimodal, including auditory and visual space, and is present in childhood and in old age. It proposes...