Our Brains at War
The Neuroscience of Conflict and Peacebuilding
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 September 2021
- ISBN 9780197512654
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 234x155x20 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English 178
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Short description:
Our Brains at War: The Neuroscience of Conflict and Peacebuilding suggests that we need a radical change in how we think about war, leadership, and politics. Drawing upon the latest research from emerging areas such as behavioral genetics, biopsychology, and social and cognitive neuroscience, this book identifies the sources of compelling instincts and emotions, and how we can acknowledge and better manage them so as to develop international and societal peace more effectively.
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Our Brains at War: The Neuroscience of Conflict and Peacebuilding suggests that we need a radical change in how we think about war, leadership, and politics. Most of us, political scientists included, fail to appreciate the extent to which instincts and emotions, rather than logic, factor into our societal politics and international wars. Many of our physiological and genetic tendencies, of which we are mostly unaware, can all too easily fuel our antipathy towards other groups, make us choose 'strong' leaders over more mindful leaders, assist recruitment for illegal militias, and facilitate even the most gentle of us to inflict violence on others. Drawing upon the latest research from emerging areas such as behavioral genetics, biopsychology, and social and cognitive neuroscience, this book identifies the sources of compelling instincts and emotions, and how we can acknowledge and better manage them so as to develop international and societal peace more effectively.
Emotions and instincts, of which we are often barely aware, end up shaping profoundly the way we humans make war and make peace. Inspired by her personal experience as a first-hand witness in a deep-seated ethnic conflict, and informed by her professional experience as a peace-builder, Mari Fitzduff delves deep into the new behavioural sciences to offer us an eye-opening and thought-provoking set of insights about the brain and conflict and what we can do to help make peace possible. A true pleasure to read and recommend to others!
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: On Being Mortal
Chapter 2: The Amygdala Hijack
Chapter 3: Us and Others
Chapter 4: My Truth or Your Truth?
Chapter 5: The Lure of Extremism
Chapter 6: Follow the Leader
Chapter 7: Accultured Norms
Chapter 8: New Horizons, New Tribes
Chapter 9: The Next Adaptation?
Chapter 10: Peacebuilding More Successfully?
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