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Conclusion: The Essence of Peace? Toward a Comprehensive and Parsimonious Model of Sustainable Peace

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The excellent chapters in this book offer a vast array of psychosocial conditions and processes which have been linked to sustainable peace. This concluding chapter offers a summary and synthesis of this research; highlighting the basic commonalities of the construct of sustainable peace that underlay the many aspects discussed in the book, and offering a more parsimonious model of sustainable peace, informed by dynamical systems theory, which conceptualizes the effects of the many component parts on increasing and decreasing the probabilities of stable dynamics of destructive conflict and peace.

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  • Peace Education
  • Constructive Conflict
  • Negative Attractor

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Coleman, P.T. (2012). Conclusion: The Essence of Peace? Toward a Comprehensive and Parsimonious Model of Sustainable Peace. In: Coleman, P. (eds) Psychological Components of Sustainable Peace. Peace Psychology Book Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3555-6_18

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