Themes and Subthemes

• Peace
  • Peace Psychology for the twenty-first Century
  • Issues and challenges in peace building
  • Role of psychology in peace building
  • Religion and Peace building
  • Diversity and tolerance (racial, linguistic, interfaith, and intercultural harmony)
  • The psychosocial conditions conducive or detrimental to sustainable peace
  • The Psychology and cultural context of structural peace building
  • Peace building and peace education
  • Nonviolent approaches to peace building
• Conflict
  • Non-violent and violent conflict
  • Cooperation, competition and conflict
  • Ethnic and Intergroup conflicts and cooperation (between ethnic groups, clans, religious groups, states etc.)
  • Role of Psychological processes (attention, perception, memory, thinking, judgment, emotion, and motivation) involved in conflict and conflict handling
  • Formation, escalation, reduction, management and resolution of conflicts,
  • Conflict Resolution: Theoretical and Practical Issues
• Aggression and violence
  • Globalism and Structural Violence
  • Specific violence (youth violence, media violence, Intimate partner violence, domestic violence, family violence, Child abuse)
  • Violence in special groups (gender, women, children, transgender Violence)
  • Social psychology of violence
  • Emotions, social control, and violence,
  • Management and prevention of violence
• Human rights (civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights) and violation of Human rights as structural violence
• Social inequalities, criminology, and pursuit of social justice
• Neuropsychology of peace, conflict and violence
• Extremism &Terrorism
• Nationalism and War, Confronting the Psychological Environment of War in the Twenty-first Century
• The Psychosocial conditions and psychosocial effects of war and violence.
• Pakistani media and peace building
• Role of media in peace building, conflict resolution and violence management
• Role of social media in peace conflict and violence
• Peace psychology in the context of current geopolitical situation of Pakistan and neighbors

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