Suicide through a Peacebuilding Lens

Presents an empirical analysis of the six top journals in Peace and Conflict Studies for the past 15 years showcasing relevant content related to the suicide
Contributes a comprehensive summary of the phenomena of suicide in contemporary groups, in the ancient world and in modern demographic populations
Supplies a novel and distinct typology of suicide separating medical suicide and instrumental suicide
Illustrates the diversity of content and commentary surrounding life-ending acts to question how intention, motivation and intervention relate to suicide
Introduces readers to the conceptualization of acts of suicide as social, cultural and political forms of violence
Challenges assumptions that all acts of suicide are tragedies and offers an argument for suicide as an act of altruism in certain circumstances
Provides a commentary on the act of violence transformation and suicide

Autorentext

Katerina Standish is Deputy Director and Senior Lecturer at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago, in New Zealand.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: The Suicide Gap.- Chapter 2: Understandings of Suicide.- Chapter 3: Why Peace and Conflict Studies?.- Chapter 4: Medical Suicide.- Chapter 5: Instrumental Suicide.- Chapter 6: Social, Cultural and Political violence.- Chapter 7: Intention, Motivation and Intervention.- Chapter 8: Why not Suicide?.- Chapter 9: Peacebuilding Suicide