Paul Wehr
Biographic Data
| ID | 3633641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Wehr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Wehr |
| SIGNATURE | WEHR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Persistent Activist: How Peace Commitment Develops and Survives
This book explores the movement experience of thirty Colorado peace activists, whose names are changed to conceal their identities. It provides a brief summary of the main currents of collective action theory, noting some of the existing research about participation in social movements.
Using Conflict Theory
Human conflict - from family feuds, to labor strikes, to national warfare - is an ever-present and universal social problem and the methods to manage it, a challenge for everyone, from average citizens to policymakers and social theorists. Using Conflict Theory will educate students about how, under what conditions, and why conflict erupts, and how it can be managed. It is a unique classroom book blending theory and practical application and the …
Stabilizing and directional selection on facial paedomorphosis: Averageness or juvenilization
Resolving Controversy Over Birth Order and Personality: By Debate or By Design
The notion that birth order bears a systematic relation to personality was commonly thought to have succumbed to the formidable attack from Ernst and Angst (1983). The 1996 publication of Frank Sulloway's book Born to Rebel , however, breathed new life into a proposition that most social scientists thought was a dead horse. In response to the book, Townsend (this issue) insists that Sulloway's extraordinary measures to revive this dead horse were…
The Persistent Activist: How Peace Commitment Develops and Survives
Peace Action Beliefs and Peace Action Availability and Opportunity Developing Commitment Vision, Effectiveness, and Urgency Social Support and Cross Pressures Strategies of Persistence Activism and Personal Growth How Peace Commitment Survives Collective and Creative Action Epilogue
Persistent Pacifism: How Activist Commitment is Developed and Sustained
How and why do activists persist in their commitment to a social movement beyond its initial mobilization phase? How do they manage their commitments? What role does creativity play in helping them keep their peace commitment intact over the long term? These are questions explored in this study. Based on extensive interviews with thirty persistent peace activists, a theory of sustained commitment is developed. It encompasses how people become ava…
The citizen intervenor
In the wake of the Somalian, Rwandan and Bosnian crises, and on the brink of the Burundi conflict, we should consider not whether the outside world should intervene to moderate civil violence in such cases, but how it should do so. Governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) quite simply must expand the world's capacity to protect civilians from violence, .whether internal or external. Military institutions, whose past interventions have…
Commentary: Toward a History of Nonviolence
Justice Without Violence
Theoretical Foundations, G. Burgess and H. Burgess Peace, Justice and the Faces of Power, K. Boulding Non-violent Direct Action and the Diffusion of Power, D. Bond Violence, Non-Violence and Justice in Sandinista Nicaragua, P. Wehr and S.E. Nepstad Violence versus Non-Violence - A Personal Case Study of the USSR and Its Successors, Z. Arabajan China's Movement to Resolve Citizen/Government Conflicts Without Violence, S. Thomas Non-Violent and Vio…
Mediating Conflict in Central America
The Esquipulas peace process in Central America is examined as process, structure and context. It is found to be an innovative effort in regional conflict resolution. The study focuses on how mediation has been used in conflict management within Nicaragua. Trust- or confianza-based mediation has assumed special importance in the Nicaraguan case. The emphasis on the confianza relationship in Central American societies produces a type of mediator k…
Transforming the Institutions of Violence
Commensurate Security: An Alternative Defense Paradigm
Commensurate security is proposed as a national defense paradigm that will compete increasingly with those of nuclear deterrence and arms control for the attention of the peoples and governments of Europe. The paradigm includes the concepts of threat assessment, unprovocative armaments, territorial defense, civilian resistance, and restructuring of military forces to provide better utilization of a nation's defense resources. It addresses the com…
Political Psychology Comes of Age
Nuclear Pacifism as Collective Action
Nuclear pacifism as a social movement has received inadequate attention from North American sociolo gists. The author analyzes the growth and crisis phases of contemporary nuclear pacifism using the social disorganization and resource mobilization paradigms of collective behavior theory. He identifies certain growth stimuli ranging from particular precipitating, dramatizing, and encounter events to the dis appearance of major non-nuclear events t…
Nonviolent Resistance to Nazism: Norway, 1940–45
Conflict Regulation
Peace and Conflict Processes: A Research Overview
The White-Collar Challenge to Nuclear Safeguards
Peace and World Order Systems: Teaching and Research
Judgment Analysis in Policy Formation: A New Method for Improving Public Participation
Effective communication between citizens and public officials is essential to a representative democracy, but conventional methods of communication are inade- quate for the process of complex policy formation. Such inadequacy is due, at least in part, to known difficulties of understanding and describing cognitive processes. A new method, derived from social judgment theory, which enhances the quality of communication between the public and its r…
Developing Undergraduate Peace Studies Programs
The Politics of Community Conflict: The Fluoridation Decision
Violence in the Streets
Nonviolence and Differentiation in the Equal Rights Movement
The larger movement for racial equality in the United States has experienced considerable structural and ideological differentiation in the past decade, largely as a consequence of disagreement over tactics to be employed. Two direct-action sub-movements, the southern sit-ins and the urban riots, best illustrate the divergence with the former committed to tactical nonviolence and the latter to violent means of effecting social change.To regain th…
Mediating Conflict in Central America
The Esquipulas peace process in Central America is examined as process, structure and context. It is found to be an innovative effort in regional conflict resolution. The study focuses on how mediation has been used in conflict management within Nicaragua. Trust- or confianza-based mediation has assumed special importance in the Nicaraguan case. The emphasis on the confianza relationship in Central American societies produces a type of mediator k…
The Politics of Community Conflict: The Fluoridation Decision
Persistent Pacifism: How Activist Commitment is Developed and Sustained
How and why do activists persist in their commitment to a social movement beyond its initial mobilization phase? How do they manage their commitments? What role does creativity play in helping them keep their peace commitment intact over the long term? These are questions explored in this study. Based on extensive interviews with thirty persistent peace activists, a theory of sustained commitment is developed. It encompasses how people become ava…
Judgment Analysis in Policy Formation: A New Method for Improving Public Participation
Effective communication between citizens and public officials is essential to a representative democracy, but conventional methods of communication are inade- quate for the process of complex policy formation. Such inadequacy is due, at least in part, to known difficulties of understanding and describing cognitive processes. A new method, derived from social judgment theory, which enhances the quality of communication between the public and its r…
Stabilizing and directional selection on facial paedomorphosis: Averageness or juvenilization
Commentary: Toward a History of Nonviolence
Nuclear Pacifism as Collective Action
Nuclear pacifism as a social movement has received inadequate attention from North American sociolo gists. The author analyzes the growth and crisis phases of contemporary nuclear pacifism using the social disorganization and resource mobilization paradigms of collective behavior theory. He identifies certain growth stimuli ranging from particular precipitating, dramatizing, and encounter events to the dis appearance of major non-nuclear events t…
Nonviolent Resistance to Nazism: Norway, 1940–45
Nonviolence and Differentiation in the Equal Rights Movement
The larger movement for racial equality in the United States has experienced considerable structural and ideological differentiation in the past decade, largely as a consequence of disagreement over tactics to be employed. Two direct-action sub-movements, the southern sit-ins and the urban riots, best illustrate the divergence with the former committed to tactical nonviolence and the latter to violent means of effecting social change.To regain th…
Violence in the Streets
The Politics of Community Conflict: The Fluoridation Decision
Developing Undergraduate Peace Studies Programs
Peace and World Order Systems: Teaching and Research
Judgment Analysis in Policy Formation: A New Method for Improving Public Participation
Effective communication between citizens and public officials is essential to a representative democracy, but conventional methods of communication are inade- quate for the process of complex policy formation. Such inadequacy is due, at least in part, to known difficulties of understanding and describing cognitive processes. A new method, derived from social judgment theory, which enhances the quality of communication between the public and its r…
Peace and Conflict Processes: A Research Overview
The White-Collar Challenge to Nuclear Safeguards
Conflict Regulation
Nonviolent Resistance to Nazism: Norway, 1940–45
Nuclear Pacifism as Collective Action
Nuclear pacifism as a social movement has received inadequate attention from North American sociolo gists. The author analyzes the growth and crisis phases of contemporary nuclear pacifism using the social disorganization and resource mobilization paradigms of collective behavior theory. He identifies certain growth stimuli ranging from particular precipitating, dramatizing, and encounter events to the dis appearance of major non-nuclear events t…
Political Psychology Comes of Age
Transforming the Institutions of Violence
Commensurate Security: An Alternative Defense Paradigm
Commensurate security is proposed as a national defense paradigm that will compete increasingly with those of nuclear deterrence and arms control for the attention of the peoples and governments of Europe. The paradigm includes the concepts of threat assessment, unprovocative armaments, territorial defense, civilian resistance, and restructuring of military forces to provide better utilization of a nation's defense resources. It addresses the com…
Mediating Conflict in Central America
The Esquipulas peace process in Central America is examined as process, structure and context. It is found to be an innovative effort in regional conflict resolution. The study focuses on how mediation has been used in conflict management within Nicaragua. Trust- or confianza-based mediation has assumed special importance in the Nicaraguan case. The emphasis on the confianza relationship in Central American societies produces a type of mediator k…
Justice Without Violence
Theoretical Foundations, G. Burgess and H. Burgess Peace, Justice and the Faces of Power, K. Boulding Non-violent Direct Action and the Diffusion of Power, D. Bond Violence, Non-Violence and Justice in Sandinista Nicaragua, P. Wehr and S.E. Nepstad Violence versus Non-Violence - A Personal Case Study of the USSR and Its Successors, Z. Arabajan China's Movement to Resolve Citizen/Government Conflicts Without Violence, S. Thomas Non-Violent and Vio…
Commentary: Toward a History of Nonviolence
The citizen intervenor
In the wake of the Somalian, Rwandan and Bosnian crises, and on the brink of the Burundi conflict, we should consider not whether the outside world should intervene to moderate civil violence in such cases, but how it should do so. Governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) quite simply must expand the world's capacity to protect civilians from violence, .whether internal or external. Military institutions, whose past interventions have…
The Persistent Activist: How Peace Commitment Develops and Survives
Peace Action Beliefs and Peace Action Availability and Opportunity Developing Commitment Vision, Effectiveness, and Urgency Social Support and Cross Pressures Strategies of Persistence Activism and Personal Growth How Peace Commitment Survives Collective and Creative Action Epilogue
Persistent Pacifism: How Activist Commitment is Developed and Sustained
How and why do activists persist in their commitment to a social movement beyond its initial mobilization phase? How do they manage their commitments? What role does creativity play in helping them keep their peace commitment intact over the long term? These are questions explored in this study. Based on extensive interviews with thirty persistent peace activists, a theory of sustained commitment is developed. It encompasses how people become ava…
Resolving Controversy Over Birth Order and Personality: By Debate or By Design
The notion that birth order bears a systematic relation to personality was commonly thought to have succumbed to the formidable attack from Ernst and Angst (1983). The 1996 publication of Frank Sulloway's book Born to Rebel , however, breathed new life into a proposition that most social scientists thought was a dead horse. In response to the book, Townsend (this issue) insists that Sulloway's extraordinary measures to revive this dead horse were…
Stabilizing and directional selection on facial paedomorphosis: Averageness or juvenilization
Using Conflict Theory
Human conflict - from family feuds, to labor strikes, to national warfare - is an ever-present and universal social problem and the methods to manage it, a challenge for everyone, from average citizens to policymakers and social theorists. Using Conflict Theory will educate students about how, under what conditions, and why conflict erupts, and how it can be managed. It is a unique classroom book blending theory and practical application and the …
The Persistent Activist: How Peace Commitment Develops and Survives
This book explores the movement experience of thirty Colorado peace activists, whose names are changed to conceal their identities. It provides a brief summary of the main currents of collective action theory, noting some of the existing research about participation in social movements.
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Politics (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Collective action (4 works)