ABSTRACT
What readers hold in hand is a special issue of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, devoted to Peace Psychology in Germany. By giving it this obvious title, we imply that the issue exclusively reports research conducted in Germany, in the sense that scholars working at institutions in Germany have been solicited to contribute. This excludes neither non-German nationals nor research with non-German subjects but it implies that the issue encompasses contributions from scientists working or having worked in a German institutional framework. In international psychology, peace psychology is in good standing. At the International Congress of Psychology in Acapulco in 1984, the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) explicitly rejected the inauguration of an ad hoc committee on the contributions of psychology to peace. It is not an exaggeration to say that IUPsyS kept a jealous watch over the committee until the end of the cold war.
