The Group on International Perspectives on Governmental Aggression and Peace

The Group on International Perspectives on Governmental Aggression and Peace

The Group on International Perspectives on Governmental Aggression and Peace [http://people.bu.edu/gipgap/ (GIPGAP)] is an international multi-disciplinary team of academics and researchers. The group has been undertaking extensive research using the Personal and Institutional Rights to Aggression and Peace Scale, or PAIRTAPS, a research intrument which asesses social attitudes to peace and war.

This group, led by Dr. Kathleen Malley-Morrison of Boston University, grew out of an earlier group that investigated International Perspectives in Family Violence and Abuse. For the GIPGAP project, the views of ordinary citizens from more than 30 countries—covering North, South, and Central America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Asian Pacific and Pacific Islands, and South Asia-- will form the core of a series of four books to be published by Praeger International Security.

Research

Preliminary findings from the project. Preliminary findings presented at professional meetings or published in journal articles include: Americans born in the United States show significantly more tolerance for governmental aggression (e.g., violence against citizens by the police/military, invasion of another country, ignoring treaties, and killing civilians) than individuals living in the United States but born elsewhere. Individuals from developed countries show more tolerance for most forms of governmental aggression than individuals from developing nations. Men, in general, show greater tolerance for governmental aggression than women, whereas women were more likely to indicate that children have a right to grow up in a world of peace. Within the United States, men, Republicans, and Christians showed more support for a nation’s right to wage war than women, Democrats, and agnostics/atheists.

References

*Malley-Morrison, K. (Ed.). (2004). International perspectives on family violence and abuse: A cognitive ecological approach. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

*Malley-Morrison, K., Daskalopoulos, M., & You, H-S. (2006, winter). International perspectives on governmental aggression, International Psychology Reporter, 19-20.

*Malley-Morrison, K.M., et al. (2006, spring). International perspectives on war and peace. Peace Psychology, 15(1), 6-7.

*Daskalopoulos, M., Zaveri, T., & Malley-Morrison, K. (2006). Greek, Spanish and American perspectives on the right of a country to invade. Peace Psychology, 15(2), 12-14.

*Ashy, M.A. & Malley-Morrison, K. (2007). Attitudes towards war in the Middle East from an extremism model perspective. International Psychology Bulletin,11, 8-11.

External links

* [http://people.bu.edu/gipgap/ GIPGAP]
* [http://people.bu.edu/jdgmnts Personal and Institutional Rights to Aggression Scale]


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