Ramírez J. MartínAbad Quintanal Gracia - Cross-Cultural Dialogue As a Conflict Management Strategy

Advisory Board

Gisela Bichler, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA

Thirimachos Bourlai, WVUStatler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, Morgantown, WV, USA

Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow, UK

Panagiotis Karampelas, Hellenic Air Force Academy, Attica, Greece

Christian Leuprecht, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON, Canada

Edward C. Morse, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

David Skillicorn, Queens University, Kingston, ON, Canada

Yoshiki Yamagata, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan

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We would like to dedicate this book to Prof. Robert A. Hinde, who passed away last year. He was a wonderful man and great scientist: twice Doctor, by Oxford and by Cambridge, Doctor h.c. by the Sorbonne, and Master of St. Johns College at Cambridge, just where Isaac Newton was living when he discovered the law of gravity, observing the falling of an apple, in 1666. As a real and honest Pugwashite, chairing the British Pugwash, non-violence, reconciliation, and the abolition of war were close to his heart. I personally had the privilege of sharing quite close and deep professional collaboration through ISRA and CICA conferences (including publications, included the join edition of a book, and a key participation in the elaboration of UNESCO endorsed Seville Statement on Violence), becoming a very close family friend for the past four decades, with him coming to my Seville home and I to his St. Johns College, at Cambridge. Robert was an outstanding person, a role model for all of those who knew him: kind and upright, he had a keen eye for the bigger picture, and this gave him a unique way of viewing humanity and the problems associated with modern-day living. In this, his solutions were always ethical, although within this he demanded a fairer deal for all. His kindness, humanistic character and gentleman like honesty will always be present in our coming CICA task.

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CICA International offers expanding international conferences intended to tackle universal human problems related to conflict in a wide-ranging way that transcends disciplinary and cultural perspectives, offering a trans-disciplinary knowledge. These CICAs started in 1983, gathering scholars and researchers interested on the analysis and discussion of the relationship between brain and aggression and other close topics, such as violence, terrorism, peace, and conflict at different levels, from the internal to the international ones, through an integrated, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary approach that considers both biological and psycho-socio-cultural factors. The main characteristic of these CICA meetings throughout the world is precisely this wide-ranging, comprehensive approach, crossing disciplinary boundaries. Consequently, it is open to plenty of disciplines, such as: individual and social psychology, psychiatry, physiology, sociology, anthropology, animal behaviour, criminology, international law, political science, pharmacology, child development, education, security studies and international relations, law and world affairs, military and peace studies, as well as policy makers, among others, but always trying to integrate the different disciplines with the purpose of helping in laying down a very much needed stable social system.