This article interrogates how survivors/victims participate in peacemaking and victim-centred Transitional Justice initiatives, focusing on the role of victims' delegations during Santos-FARC/EP peace talks Colombia (2012-2016). The presents unique empirical data, drawing sixty-eight interviews with participants from talks. research assesses Colombia's approach, arguing that shaped content agre...

BACKGROUND Communities across the United States are using street outreach workers (SWs) to prevent violence. SW programs are generally recognized as a promising model, particularly in light of a 2008 evaluation that demonstrated positive impacts associated with one well-known program. The United Teen Equality Center (UTEC) includes an SW program. OBJECTIVES Through this paper we aim to (1) do...

Abstract Russia has begun to promote itself internationally as a mediator of conflict and ‘peacemaker’. Russian officials cite its extensive experience in managing numerous post-Soviet conflicts more recent intervention civil wars Syria, Libya, the Central African Republic (CAR) Nagorno-Karabakh. considers all these activities forms ‘peacemaking’, but approach differs radically from model liber...

Although the literature in peace psychology has been growing rapidly, many American psychologists are unaware of how conflict is resolved and peace is conceptualized and achieved. This article reviews the long history and broadening scope of peace psychology and introduces a model of peace that is useful for organizing the literature. The model suggests that peace can be facilitated at four dif...