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