News
Annoucement:
Current Division 48 President Rachel MacNair announces
the formation of three presidential division task
forces: 1) Research Agenda for the Psychology of
Weaponized Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Drones); 2)
Research Agenda on Psychological Issues of the Death
Penalty; and 3) Research Agenda on Abortion from a Peace
Psychology Perspective. (Read
more)
Call for
Nominations: The American Psychological Association
(APA) seeks nominations for the APA Policy Review Task
Force on Gun Violence Prediction and Prevention by May
19. (Read
more)
Announcement:
The Department of Communication at Stanford University
announces the 2013 Summer Institute in Political
Psychology. SIPP is a three-week intensive training
program that introduces graduate students, faculty
members, and professionals to the world of political
psychology scholarship.
More information.
APA Education GRO Legislative Updates: The Updates
include:
1) Hot
Topics - Legislation on the Move - What You Can Do to
Help!; 2) Health
Resources & Services Administration Grants: MBHET & GPE;
3) Updates on Other APA Education GRO Advocacy
Activities; and 4) Annual Education Advocacy Breakfast
Meeting in Hawaii (8/3/13) (Read
Updates).
Call for Papers:
Peace and Conflict: The Journal of Peace Psychology is
seeking submissions for a special issue on the
psychologies of human rights, guest-edited by Gabriel
Twose (Society for the Psychological Study of Social
Issues) and Christopher Cohrs (Jacobs University
Bremen). Long abstracts are due on April 30th 2013.
Read
more.
Special Issue: Check
out the special issue of Peace and Conflict: The Journal
of Peace Psychology, titled “Of Narratives and
Nostalgia.” Guest edited by Norman Duncan, Garth
Stevens, and Christopher C. Sonn, this special Issue
draws together provocative articles flowing from the
Third Apartheid Archive Conference held in July 2011 in
Johannesburg. The Issue contributes to scholarly debates
on the significance of the archive, narratives,
nostalgia, conflict, and peace as well as to an
understanding of the nostalgia-conflict nexus in
developing sustained intervention praxes for
peace-building and social cohesion in racialized
contexts.
Access the
Special Issue.
