Contents -- The Ernst Strüngmann Forum -- List of Contributors -- Foreword: The Culture of Peace -- Foundations for a New Approach -- 1 Peace Is a Lifelong Process -- 2 Framing Our Analysis -- 3 Ecology of Peace -- Human Biological Development -- 4 Peptide Pathways to Peace -- 5 Epigenetics -- 6 Group Identity as an Obstacle and Catalyst of Peace -- 7 Human Biological Development and Peace -- Early Childhood Events and Relationships -- 8 Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives -- 9 The Problem of Institutionalization of Young Children and Its Consequences for Efforts to Build Peaceful Societies -- 10 Prosocial Development and Situational Morality -- 11 How Do Events and Relationships in Childhood Set the Stage for Peace at Personal and Social Levels? -- Challenges in Society -- 12 Mental Health and Development among Children Living in Violent Conditions -- 13 Structural Violence and Early Childhood Development -- 14 Promoting the Capacity for Peace in Early Childhood -- 15 Healthy Human Development as a Path to Peace -- Program and Policy Implications -- 16 Interventions -- 17 Linking Peacebuilding and Child Development -- 18 The Power of Media in Peacebuilding -- 19 Creating Effective Programs and Policies to Reduce Violence and Promote Peace -- Bibliography -- Subject Index.