This work is intended for scholars and students interested in issues of peace education, reconciliation, and coexistence from several disciplines including social and political psychology, communication, education, political science, sociology, and philosophy.

Agreement among raters is of great importance in many domains. Divided into five sections, this text describes methods of analysis of agreement data that come in the usual agreement table or in the form of raw data. Part I introduces readers to coefficients of rater agreement and discusses their characteristics. Part II describes a family of log-linear models that allow one to test specific hypotheses about the agreement table, including hypotheses of general agreement and those about trends in raters' judgments. The next two sections present methods for the exploration of rater agreement and...

This book presents an introduction to the methodology of structural equation modeling, illustrates its use, and goes on to argue that it has revolutionary implications for the study of natural systems. A major theme of this book is that we have, up to this point, attempted to study systems primarily using methods (such as the univariate model) that were designed only for considering individual processes. Understanding systems requires the capacity to examine simultaneous influences and responses. Structural equation modeling (SEM) has such capabilities. It also possesses many other traits...