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Call for Contributions: Working for Peace: A Handbook of Practical Psychology

Dear friends, Rachel M. MacNair, Ph.D., sends the following message:

Psychologists for Social Responsibility has asked me to serve as editor in updating a 1985 book, Working for Peace: A Handbook of Practical Psychology. This manual is a set of chapters by different authors that address the psychology knowledge needs for peace activists; other activists would of course also find it useful.

We will use chapters from the original and from presenters at the PsySR conference being held in Portland, Oregon May 19-22.

I need two kinds of help:
1) If anyone has cartoons that do a particularly good job of getting across some aspect of peace psychology or psychology for activists, I would like to make the book more attractive with them. Are they up on your door, or in your files? Ones that are easy to get permission for by virtue of having been done by students for the college newspaper or something similar would be fantastic.
Any information on seeking permission that you can include would be quite helpful.

Send by e-mail attachment to: drmacnair@hotmail.com

2) Any other ideas for chapters to contribute to the book would be welcome. Please contact me to see if your topic is suitable or already covered, and I can send you the guidelines.

The following topics are ones that I think are important, but are not yet covered, so if you or someone you could recommend could do them, please let me know:

The Psychology of Attractive Layout of Written Materials

How to best lay out flyers, pamphlets, newsletters, and similar materials to make it more likely people will read them and get something out of them.

The Psychology of Cyberspace

How to use the web as a tool; nonviolent communication which avoids the temptation to straighten people out rather than dialog, which seems to be stronger in the anonymous situation.

Uses of Stages of Moral Development in Persuasion

Do Kohlberg's stages offer us any insight in influencing positions?

Confronting Bullies and Other Unavoidably Heated Individual Exchanges

Parenting as Peace Activism

Applying Religion & Spirituality to Peace Activism

Posted by Evelin at May 16, 2005 08:50 AM
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