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When my neighborhood woke up: Knitting collective action in disadvantaged areas amid the 2019 Chilean uprising.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 30(1), Feb 2024, 117-127; doi:10.1037/pac0000706October 2019 saw the birth of the largest wave of demonstrations to hit Chile in the last 50 years. Protesters, the length of the country, soon joined in, voicing a broad range of demands and driving what has been described as a true “awakening” at the local level. This local dimension of the protests—that is, the events that took place at the neighborhood level—has been overlooked by recent studies of the conflicts that erupted in major cities across Chile and the nationwide demands that came with them. However, ma...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

School as a contested territory for citizenship: An ethnographic study of illegal occupation and protest processes at a popular vocational education school in the chilean october.
This article presents the results of an ethnographic study conducted at a vocational school in the marginalized suburbs of the Santiago metropolitan area, focused on analyzing how the practices and discourses that students deployed at the school challenge the definition of school and the citizen practices inside of it, and through these, make the school a public space. The results show that the situated response practices undertaken by the students served to contest and transform the school space, redefining the concept of citizenship, in the sense that student mobilization challenged the conceptualizations of citizenship ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Clarification notice to “The geography of military occupation and its effect on Palestinian community cohesion, norms, and resistance motivation” by Penić et al. (2023).
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 30(1), Feb 2024, 106; doi:10.1037/pac0000745Reports a clarification to "The Geography of Military Occupation and its Effect on Palestinian Community Cohesion, Norms, and Resistance Motivation" by Sandra Penić, Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Karsten Donnay, Mai Albzour and Ravi Bhavnani (Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Advanced Online Publication, Jun 22, 2023, np). The authors wish to clarify the relationship between “The Geography of Military Occupation and Its Effect on Palestinian Community Cohesion, Norms, and Resistance Motivation” by Penić, et al. (s...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

White settler ownership and dominance shape the consequences of autochthony beliefs on support for land reparations in South Africa.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 30(1), Feb 2024, 9-18; doi:10.1037/pac0000735Evidence suggests White settlers’ autochthony beliefs in historically colonized lands can both strengthen and weaken support for reparation measures. We propose that the divergent effect of autochthony beliefs on support for reparation measures is contingent on the perception of White settler ownership and preference for group-based hierarchies. In a single study with N = 807 White South Africans, we tested the moderation function of White settler ownership beliefs and preference for group-based hierarchies on the relationsh...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The role of place in intergroup conflicts and intragroup solidarity: Recent advances and perspectives.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 30(1), Feb 2024, 1-8; doi:10.1037/pac0000740People tend to have strong psychological bonds with places such as neighborhoods, schools, towns, and countries. These people–place bonds can be of different nature (e.g., place ownership, place attachment), develop for different reasons (e.g., first arrival, length of stay), and generate different group dynamics in specific contexts. With this special issue, we sought to advance our understanding of the potential of people–place bonds to divide groups and instigate intergroup conflicts, as well as the potential to stimulat...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Cultural invariance and ideological variance of collective ownership threat in intergroup relations.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 30(1), Feb 2024, 71-81; doi:10.1037/pac0000707We fear losing control over what we perceive to be ours. This fear is called the collective ownership threat (COT). According to the concept of COT, territorial infringements pose collective ownership threats, which are linked to adverse intergroup relations. Given the distinct features of ethnic homogeneity and collectivism, we examine whether COT can be applied to an East Asian context, Japan. Additionally, the reactive liberal model proposes that liberals are more prone than conservatives to feel threatened by the infringe...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - January 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Winning is owning: The role of perceived group superiority on territory ownership attributions.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 30(1), Feb 2024, 30-47; doi:10.1037/pac0000716Two preregistered experiments investigated the role of perceived group superiority in third-party territory ownership attributions (i.e., regarding a group as the possessor of a land) in intergroup contexts. Experiment 1 (N = 288) tested the effect of different versus same-time arrival to a territory on territory ownership attributions. The first-arriver group to a territory was more likely to be perceived as physically powerful, morally strong, and the owner of the territory than a newcomer (in within-subject comparisons) an...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - December 18, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Forces for peace.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(4), Nov 2023, 465-466; doi:10.1037/pac0000712Reviews the book, The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Peace edited by Katerina Standish, Heather Devere, Adan Suazo, and Rachel Rafferty (2022). This 1221-page tome offers a quadratic model for positive peace. The text is filled with diverse perspectives, theories, and examples from across the globe, and across the 61 chapters and 66 contributors, there is far more depth than can be commented on in this short review. The reviewer highlights a few examples from each of the four focal point areas—foundations, dimensions, path...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - December 18, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The dawning of the age of AI: Human transformation or dämmerung?
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(4), Nov 2023, 459-460; doi:10.1037/pac0000711Reviews the book, The Age of A.I.: And Our Human Future edited by Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel P. Huttenlocher (2022). This book is an ambitious, at times flamboyant, declaration that “we may have no choice but to foster AI. But we also have a duty to shape it in a way that is compatible with a human future.” Is this another instance of technological determinism, fatalism, and wishful thinking, or do we collectively have the knowledge and willpower to bend information machines to our purposes and thereby...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - December 4, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A qualitative investigation into the emotional geographies of border politics in “postconflict” Cyprus.
This article aims to investigate the emotional impact of living in a society marred by rising tensions over territory and restrictions on mobility. Whilst the political narratives and dynamics of the Cyprus problem tend to dominate, I use qualitative methodologies (interviews and site visits) to pay particular attention to the lived experiences of the everyday people on both sides of the Green Line who are affected by the division. Finally, through an emotional geography lens, I argue that the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent border closure and reopening of Varosha’s beachfront have brought forth feelings of frustrat...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Racial majority group’s support for racial equality in Malaysia.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 30(1), Feb 2024, 48-57; doi:10.1037/pac0000709When and why does a racial majority group support racial equality? In answering this question, we focused on Malaysia, a multiracial country in which the Malay majority group’s special status as one of the country’s original inhabitants is institutionalized. Across Study 1 (N = 130) and Study 2 (N = 240), we examined the extent to which Malays’ endorsement of autochthony (an ideology of native ownership) is associated with perceived threat from racial minorities, support for racial equality policies, and support for a p...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 16, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Implications of Article 370 abrogation for intergroup relations between Hindus and Muslims in Kashmir Valley.
This study is an attempt to answer these questions and to capture the psychosocial complexities of the present situation in Kashmir, especially after the Article 370 revocation. Through exploratory research, this study tries to understand the willingness of people toward acceptance of collective issues and challenges, especially Post Article 370 abrogation, when people from both the communities have sensed a collective threat. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology)
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 16, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Compulsory ROTC and the efforts against it.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(4), Nov 2023, 463-464; doi:10.1037/pac0000699Reviews the book, Breaking the War Habit: The Debate Over Militarism in American Education by Seth Kershner, Scott Harding, and Charles Howlett (2022). The book gives us a chronological review of the campaigns to demilitarize education, focusing on the roles of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC; college) and the Junior ROTC (K-12; JROTC) in the United States. The reviewer believes that this book could easily be updated to include a comparison of similar movements occurring in other countries. They also think a wh...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - September 18, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The role of hope in buffering the influence of intolerance of uncertainty on student’s psychological well-being.
This study investigated whether dispositional hope buffers the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and psychological well-being (PWB) among Kashmiri students exposed to armed conflict. Five hundred fifty university students in Kashmir were randomly selected to participate in the survey constituting pre-established measures related to intolerance of uncertainty, dispositional hope, and PWB. Moderation analysis was conducted to determine the moderating influence of hope between intolerance of uncertainty and PWB. Intolerance of uncertainty was significantly and negatively related to PWB and dispositional hope. An...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - August 17, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“The way out is through”.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(4), Nov 2023, 461-462; doi:10.1037/pac0000696Reviews the book Constructive Conflicts: From Emergence to Transformation (6th Ed.) by Bruce W. Dayton and Louis Kriesberg (2022). Constructive Conflicts wants to equip its readers with a ready-to-use conceptual toolkit for identifying, analyzing, and transforming conflicts. The book is addressed at three types of readers: those who would simply like to know more about conflicts, those who seek advice on how to engage in conflicts constructively, and those who manage conflicts as part of their profession. All three of these...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - August 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research