Nuanced, Ecologically Valid Frameworks
from Part III - Looking Ahead
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 December 2025
The final section of the book is structured to provide pathways forward for other researchers, practitioners, and scientists to use conceptualized peace. In this chapter, I detail the methodological approaches that can guide a study of meaning making, identity, and young people’s development. The chapter begins with a deeper dive into meaning making and ecological validity, as well as how to approach studying them. Then, I argue that the SAGE and MOVE models provide both theoretical and practical insights to study the complex nuance of everyday lived experiences and their role in cognition and psychosocial processes. To do this, I show how these two models connect to conceptualized peace and discuss how they directly informed the research studies from the previous two chapters. The methodological similarities and differences in these two studies also motivates a discussion about the flexibility and broad applicability of conceptualized peace.
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