WAR AND PEACE IN THE LIFE OF CHILDREN - PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPMENTAL-PSYCHOLOGY - A LITERATURE-REVIEW

The literature review analyses results of research on children's anxie ties about war, on their attitudes and conceptions of war, peace, and peace making, and on the socialization of belligerent or pacifist disp ositions. Coping with anxiety as well as understanding political devel opments depend not only on the social-cognitive development, but essen tially on the existence of social structures, that allow to develop em otional bonds and activities to make a discussion possible on those pr oblems corresponding to the children's developmental stages.