Conclusion: An Integration of the Integration of Peace and Character Strengths

This book, Peace Psychology and Character Strengths, offers a bridge for the disparate fields of peace psychology and character strengths. This involved integrating central concepts, theory, and science, and in some cases practices, from both fields. It has offered a panoply of new, large-scale scientific studies to catalyze science and theory with the intention to lead to future applied studies and practices and programs therein. The model of multiple levels of peace (e.g., inner peace, relational peace, intragroup peace, community peace, etc.) has served as not only an organizing structure for the book but as a model for strategically conducting character strengths studies to advance new knowledge at each peace level. This conclusion chapter highlights findings of character strengths across the seven levels of peace and insights on several specific character strengths and character strengths combinations. Final considerations for the science of character strengths and peace are offered.