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This first chapter introduces the book and its structure. This is the first book focusing specifically on research methods in the emerging field of peace psychology. Many of these methods are not new, but are rather applications from the parent discipline of psychology. There is an extensive body of work describing the methods of research in psychology and this volume builds on this base to highlight some of the peaceful aspects of these research processes as well as introducing some new ideas and strategies. The volume contextualizes peace psychology and its research in the peaceful values and principles that underpin its endeavors. The aim is to understand, deconstruct, and reconstruct some of the mainstream and taken for granted methodologies and tools used by psychologists. We examine whether some of these methodologies can be both effective and peaceful when applied in different cultural and political contexts and explore alternative approaches to psychological research that promotes peace. In inviting authors to contribute to the book we aim to have a balanced representation of gender, geographical regions, and schools of thought.
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We would like to thank Micheal Wessells, former Chair of CPSP, for the wording of this paragraph and Daniel Christie, the current Chair of CPSP, for information on the origin of CPSP.
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The use of capitalism of “I” in Indigenous varies. “I” is capitalized where Indigenous is referring to people. E.g. Indigenous people, Indigenous research assistant, Indigenous children. Small letter “i” is used where indigenous is used as adjective of an inanimate object - indigenous method, indigenous policy and so on.
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Bretherton, D., Law, S. (2015). Introduction: Methodologies in Peace Psychology. In: Bretherton, D., Law, S. (eds) Methodologies in Peace Psychology. Peace Psychology Book Series, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18395-4_1
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