Alean Al-Krenawi – författare

This book  discusses  the importance of culture and diversity within society through multicultural, cross-cultural, and intercultural encounters  while applying psychological effectiveness to manage core competencies. It carefully explains how influential the social environment is to an individual within a society.  It seeks to directly affect mental health  practitioners’ treatment within practices in accordance to specific ethno-cultural clients; and it seeks to encourage students and practitioners  to practice acceptance of diverse groups and multiracial communities. Although understanding various cultural norms and accepting diversity is not always simple, the book  promotes a global understanding through identifying cultural benefits within a multiracial, multi-ethnic society, while evoking culturally competent techniques for mental health practitioners.

This groundbreaking volume documents a comprehensive peacebuilding initiative in addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and reviews the broad theoretical base underlying these efforts. Theory chapters discuss intrinsic peace-related concepts, including the nature of conflict, elements of individual and group identity, the long-term psychological effects of prolonged political hostilities, and the mechanisms of reconciliation and inclusiveness. Central to the coverage is the ambitious Building Peace through Knowledge Project, a four-year multidisciplinary program featuring a diverse palette of professional and community interventions to reduce the occurrence and trauma of political violence. The author reveals powerful insights connecting knowledge to peacebuilding by analyzing:

·         The relationships between attitudes and ideology in intergroup conflict.

·         The psychosocial impact of political violence among Israelis and Palestinians.

·        The literature on people-to-people interventions (P2Ps) in conflict reduction.

·         The roles offorgiveness, reconciliation, and fairness in conflict resolution.

·         The methodology and findings of the Building Peace through Knowledge Project.

·         The potential of knowledge-based interventions in building sustainable peace in other regions.

Practitioners, mental health professionals, and scholars with interests in multicultural mental health, cross-cultural psychology, political violence, and peace education will look to Building Peace through Knowledge as an ideabook, a mission statement, and a road map toward a more stable world.