Science, a weapon of peace

Science and Sociology of Science: Beyond War and Peace

Fish Wars: Science Is Shaping a New Peace Agenda

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Bringing science to bear--on peace, not war: elaborating on psychology's potential to promote peace.

We argue that psychological and contextual factors play important roles in bringing about, facilitating, and escalating violent conflict. Yet rather than conclude that violent conflict is inevitable, we believe psychology's contributions can extend beyond understanding the origins and nature of violent conflict, to promote nonviolence and peace. In this article, we summarize psychological persp...

The community of science and the search for peace.

Chance and design: reminiscences of science in peace and war

ALAN HODGKIN, Chance and design: reminiscences of science in peace and war, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. xi, 412, illus., £40.00, $59.95 (hardback 0-521-40099-6). Just over forty years ago a revolution in biology was heralded by a series of papers in the Journal of PhYsiology in which Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley described the membrane currents across the squid giant axon, analysed t...