Introduction
Peace, Literature, and Art is the component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias.
Culture is the essence of individual and national identity. What children and people read and watch and the kind of Culture, Literature and Media, they are exposed to, through home, education and society - provide them with basic values, attitudes and norms which affect and motivate them throughout their lives. It is of crucial importance therefore, that those stories we are exposed to, at the socio-cultural and educational levels, which we watch on television, in films and on the Internet, and which we read - should be peaceful ones, which open our eyes to a humane world that can prosper from peace and harmony. This Theme on Peace, Literature, and Art deals, in two volumes and cover several topics related to Peace Education: Definition, Approaches, and Future Directions; Importance of a Literature and a Culture of Peace
These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers, NGOs and GOs.
Editor(s) Biography
Professor Ada Aharoni is a sociologist of culture at the Technion: Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel. She is also a writer, poet and editor, and she writes in English and Hebrew. She has published twenty-five books to date that have been translated into several languages. She believes that culture and literature can help in healing the urgent ailments of our global village, such as war, conflict and famine, and promote equal status and opportunities for women and men. The themes of a new global Peace Culture System, Multiculturalism, peace and conflict resolution, toward the sustainability of our fragile earth, are major ones throughout her works. She studied at London University (England), where she earned an M.Phil in English Literature, and at the Hebrew University (Jerusalem), where she earned her Ph.D. degree on Literature and Sociology. She also taught at Haifa University, and at Penn State University and the University of Pennsylvania. She has been awarded several international prizes and awards, and has been elected as one of the 100 Global Heroines (Rochester N.Y. 1998).
