Science and peace

Science and Sociology of Science: Beyond War and 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...

Chance and Design. Reminiscences of Science in Peace and War

Advisory Group, led by Dr. Terence Keane at the Behavioral Sciences Division of the VA National Center for PTSD. The book is well written and clearly organized. Each chapter provides sufficient introduction and explanatory materials for the reader to comprehend the key points within it. The format allows those outside the field of PTSD to understand this critical study. The volume also attempts...

The community of science and the search for peace.

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...