Explores the psychological insights needed to establish successful poverty-alleviation programs in developing countries without destructive conflict.

Psychology has focused more on personalities in poverty -- pathologizing -- than on contexts for poverty reduction (Pick & Sirkin, 2010). As a result, the disci

In order to design, enact, and protect poverty alleviation policies in developing countries, we must first understand the psychology of how the poor react to th

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn hel

Contextualizing Humanitarian work in history, justice, methods and professional ethics, this book articulates process skills for transformational partnerships b