Description
Preventing War and Promoting Peace: A Guide for Health Professionals is an interdisciplinary study of how pervasive militarism creates a propensity for war through the influence of academia, economic policy, the defense industry, and the news media. Comprising contributions by academics and practitioners from the fields of public health, medicine, nursing, law, sociology, psychology, political science, and peace and conflict studies, as well as representatives from organizations active in war prevention, the book emphasizes the underlying preventable causes of war, particularly militarism, and focuses on the methods health professionals can use to prevent war. Preventing War and Promoting Peace provides hard-hitting facts about the devastating health effects of war and a broad perspective on war and health, presenting a new paradigm for the proactive engagement of health professions in the prevention of war and the promotion of peace.
Chapter
Part I The Health Effects of War and Weapons of War
Chapter 1 The Effects of War on Combatants, Veterans, and Their Families
Chapter 2 The Health Effects of War on Civilians
Chapter 3 The Consequences of War on the Natural Environment
Chapter 4 Weapons of War and Mass Destruction
Part II Social Determinants of War
Chapter 5 The Normalization of Militarism and Propensity for War
Chapter 6 Structural Violence and War: Global Inequalities, Resources, and Climate Change
Chapter 7 Under What Conditions Does Ethnic Conflict Result in Armed Violence?
Chapter 8 The War Profiteers: Defense Contractors Driving the Permanent War Economy
Chapter 9 News as Entertainment: The Ultimate War Propaganda Machine, or Opportunity to Promote Peace?
Chapter 10 The Quiet Military Buyout of Academia
Part III Preventing War and Promoting Peace
Chapter 11 Use of Complex Systems Modeling to Strengthen Public Health’s Role in Preventing War
Chapter 12 The Ethics of War and Peace in the Contemporary Era
Chapter 13 The Role of International Law in Preventing War and Promoting Peace
Chapter 14 Lessons from a Historical View of Health Organizations’ Activism for the Prevention of War
Chapter 15 A Gluttonous Military Budget Leaves our Social Welfare in Poor Health
Chapter 16 Pacifism and Conscientious Objection: War Resistance in the United States
Chapter 17 Countering Military Recruitment in High Schools
Chapter 18 Civil Disobedience and Direct Action in the Prevention of War
Chapter 19 Advocacy Skills for the Primary Prevention of War
Part IV Teaching and Research in the Health Professions Toward the Prevention of War
Chapter 20 Teaching and Learning Methods for Engaging Health Professionals in the Prevention of War
Box 20.1 Case Study: A “War and Health” Course at the University of Washington
Box 20.2 Radical Public Health: Engaging Campuses and Communities on War and Health
Box 20.3 Literature and Art as Pedagogical Material for Teaching about Militarism and Peace
Box 20.4 Service-Learning as Pedagogy for Peace Activism
Box 20.5 Student-Led Conferences on War and Health
Chapter 21 Conducting Health Research toward Preventing War and Promoting Peace
Box 21.1 Health Impact Assessment and the Prevention of War
Appendix 1 Public Health Competencies for the Prevention of War
Appendix 2 “War, Militarism and Health: Toward Primary Prevention”: A Syllabus Outline
Appendix 3 Additional Resources
Preventing War and Promoting Peace
：A Guide for Health Professionals
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