Transactional Analysis as a Communication Framework and Dynamic Strategy for Peace Education: Practices, Trends and Challenges for International Geopolitical Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation

$190.00

Series: Global Political Studies
BISAC: POL034000

Grounded in psychology, political science and education, this book presents Berne’s Transactional Analysis model used as a novel conceptual framework in order to interpret the diverse political tensions and military operations in the Middle East (e.g., Iraq, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine) and Afghanistan. Each chapter presents a comprehensive analysis of the geopolitical situation, with the ultimate objective of achieving conflict resolution and reconciliation.

Moreover, this book offers a dynamic strategy for the assessment of communication and conduct by leaders of Western countries, especially the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and France. Students, academics, military officers, and political leaders will find an effective communication framework for both understanding geopolitical interactions, and addressing frequently encountered communication issues and challenges at all stages of interpersonal, group, and/or state dynamic development.

More particularly, this book seeks to fill the gap between psychology and political sciences, giving students, teachers and researchers a better understanding of how a psychological model of interpersonal communication could be addressed as an inclusive peacekeeping strategy. Moreover, it outlines a roadmap for further research within the field of international relationships and military warfare in order to help improve the added value of education (notably interpersonal communication) in conflict resolution and reconciliation.

For practitioners and leaders implicated in crafting political agreements and universal diplomatic harmony, enhanced knowledge relative to the trends related to the enclosure of education in peacekeeping, human rights and democracy can facilitate to shape substantial actions in peace conciliations and orientation strategies. The purpose of these chapters is to provide guidance and basis for reflection to all readers in the realm of education, psychology, sociology, philosophy, military science, and political sciences. More generally, this book is to all those who are concerned with political psychology, group dynamics and leadership, diplomatic and military relationships, conflict resolution and reconciliation, as well as international sustainable peace.

This collective work offers comprehensive and multifaceted perspectives arising from different fields with the fundamental goal of achieving an authentic concession, compromise and reconciliation. These perspectives reflect the diversity of approaches and actors involved in the issue of peace, as well as the ultimate quest for an international human dynamic concurrence and a fundamental welfare. Indeed, every education in the modern sense is implicitly or explicitly linked to objective ideas of development, according to an ideal universal harmony.
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Contributors

Chapter 1
Introduction: The Issue of Social Sciences and “the Barbarous” in the Face of War
(Khaled Taktek, Anne Guibert-Lassalle, Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada, and others)

Chapter 2
Education and its Role in Conflict Prevention and Peacekeeping: Toward an Inclusive Definition of Sustainable Peace
(Khaled Taktek, Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada)

Chapter 3
Transactional Analysis: Principal Attributes and Effects of the Dynamic of Ego States on Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Relationships
(Khaled Taktek, Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada)

Chapter 4
The United States’ Hegemony and the Military Occupation of Iraq: War, Aggression, and State Crime
(Khaled Taktek, Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada and Salah Basalamah, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

Chapter 5
The Radical Motives for the American Invasion of Iraq: Political Ideology, Economic Reality, and Cultural Philosophy
(Khaled Taktek, Robert St-John, Houchang Hassan-Yari, Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada, and others)

Chapter 6
The United States-Led Intervention in Iraq: A Troubling Signal for the World
(Khaled Taktek, Aurélie Lacassagne, Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada)

Chapter 7
The Canadian Mission in Afghanistan: An Integrated Strategy to Peacebuilding and the Transformation of Canada’s Defense Policy
(Khaled Taktek, Robert St-John, Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada, and others)

Chapter 8
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Zionist Land Re-conquest and Expropriation
(Khaled Taktek, Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada and Salah Basalamah, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

Chapter 9
Israel’s Attack on Lebanon: Is it “Just War Theory” or War of Aggression?
(Khaled Taktek, Aurélie Lacassagne, Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada)

Chapter 10
Iran’s Nuclear Programme: A Drastic Shift in the Policy of the United States
(Khaled Taktek, Aurélie Lacassagne, Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada)

Glossary

Index


Audience: Students, academics, military officers, and political leaders will find an effective communication framework for both understanding geopolitical interactions, and addressing frequently encountered communication issues and challenges at all stages of interpersonal, group, and/or state dynamic development.

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