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The Multicultural Peace and Justice Collaborative: Critical peace education in a research training environment.
The Multicultural Peace and Justice Collaborative (The MultiPJC) is a model of critical peace education embedded in a research training environment at a Christian university. The core theoretical foundation of our training model is principled egalitarianism. Through the lens of principled egalitarianism, we create action-oriented scholarship and research that focuses on how theory, research, and practice intersect with multiculturalism, social justice, and peace. We embody principled egalitarianism so that our training environment reflects our purpose, vision, and mission of promoting peace. In this article, we provide an ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Supporting trauma recovery, healing, and peacebuilding with the Alternatives to Violence Project.
The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) is a peace education program in prisons, educational institutions and various community settings in over 50 countries. AVP has been shown to lead to positive outcomes in developing nonviolent conflict resolution skills and for supporting trauma recovery, healing, and broader peacebuilding. Some studies of AVP show its effectiveness in promoting prosocial outcomes of self-esteem, empathy and trust, and in reducing anger and stress. Some of these studies used standardized instruments and longitudinal designs. Additional support is found in an even larger body of qualitative studies....
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Examining conflict mediation to prevent violence through multisector partnerships.
This article presents a case study from Aim4Peace, a multicomponent violence prevention initiative to prevent community gun violence based on the Cure Violence (formerly Ceasefire Chicago) model. The article presents types of violence and a framework for understanding contributing factors, followed by approaches to understanding and strategies for constructing peace. The Aim4Peace program is described, including a community–academic partnership with behavioral-community psychologists, through which collaborative action and evaluation occur with trusted partners across community sectors to provide nonviolent alternatives ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Sport for social change: An action-oriented peace education curriculum.
This article overviews 1 such program, titled Sport for Social Change, that has been implemented with sports professionals and youth in India, Tajikistan, and Jordan to increase conflict prevention and resolution skills through sporting activities. The conceptual model of this sport for development “train-the-trainer” program is grounded in the contact hypothesis and theory, as well as systems, social–cognitive, self-determination, empowerment, transformative mediation, and intergroup contact theories and research. This model along with the curricula, educational strategies, challenges, limitations, and outcomes of t...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Learning peace: Adolescent Colombians’ interpretations of and responses to peace education curriculum.
This study contributes to this literature and the field of peace education by employing psychological theories on development and meaning making in investigating how adolescents respond to peace education in Colombia. In 2015, the Colombian government mandated the inclusion of peace education across all levels of schooling. The law reflected increased attention to young people’s potential development and role as peacebuilders. Nevertheless, there has been minimal evaluation of how the law has been received by young Colombians or has influenced their understandings of and orientations toward peace. The methodology in this...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Scaffolding for peacebuilding dialogues: A relational perspective of peace education in countries with sociopolitical violence.
This article summarizes and organizes previous research on peace education in Colombia in which several relational principles are addressed to illustrate how these ideas can contribute to peacebuilding via classroom settings. The conceptual scheme of reference can guide pedagogical practices that promote a culture of peace, while offering a methodology to implement these concepts. The methodology described in this article has been called Scaffolding for Peacebuilding Dialogues, which is a practice of teaching and learning dialogue that seeks to transform polarized discourses and develop students; skills in understanding th...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

How do peace psychologists address the violent assaults on Black people’s lives? A review of studies published in the Peace and Conflict journal.
Racism originated in violence for people of Africa descent and continues to evolve over time and across contexts (Nicolas & Thompson, 2019; United Nations, 2014a, 2014b, 2014c, 2015). In view of its intractability, we asked: “Among studies in peace psychology that involve participants of African descent, how prevalent are examinations of the racialized violence exacted on these samples?” “What knowledge can we derive from these racism-informed examinations to inform our understanding of the participants’ lives, processes of conflict and peace, and the work of peace educators?” To respond to these questions, we re...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Identifying determinants of individual peacefulness: A psychological foundation for peace education.
Knowledge about the personality determinants of individual peacefulness can provide a foundation for the creation and improvement of peace education programs by enabling peace educators to identify and potentially influence those determinants. Based on Walter Mischel’s cognitive social learning theory (Mischel, 1973) and Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1986), as well as on a search of relevant research, this article identifies specific person factors that influence peacefulness in the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intergroup domains of individuals’ lives. Evidence is presented for the importanc...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Supporting peaceful individuals, groups, and societies: Peace psychology and peace education.
In 2020, individuals, societies, and the international community were presented with a myriad of challenges that were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Social bonds were stretched thin, racial inequity was brought to the forefront, and political polarization deepened. This context heightened the need for effective theoretical frameworks, strategies, and understandings of how to support positive and negative peace and build cultures of peace across varied contexts. In this special section, we present a compendium of articles highlighting various ways that psychologists support these efforts through peace education. The ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

What has Shakespeare got to do with it?
The effort to establish psychology as a bona fide science has been associated with a simplistic and incorrect picture of psychology as evolving from methodologies and practices in physics and “other sciences,” and being far removed and completely separate from the humanities and arts. Introductory psychology texts routinely present this view of psychology. However, the claim that the roots of experimental psychology are to be found in 19th-century physics and related sciences is misleading and has negative implications for all of psychology, including peace psychology. The roots of experimental psychology actually go b...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Structural analysis of the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire in population exposed to armed conflicts.
The Reactive-Proactive aggression Questionnaire (RPQ) evaluates the construct of intrinsic motivation of aggression and has been tested in adults exposed to armed conflicts. We aim to validate the structure and reliability of internal consistency of the RPQ in Colombian population exposed to armed conflicts. We start by evaluating the two-dimensional factorial structure of its original version. Then, we perform an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) in 254 subjects, and a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) in 797 subjects. Sex and exposure to experiences associated with armed conflicts are used as independent variables to ev...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 10, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Religion and politics as a dangerous mix: Effects of religiosity on intergroup forgiveness and reconciliation in a post-conflict setting.
This study initially tested whether adding religious symbols to conflict narratives impacts prosocial attitudes of respondents and came with negative results. In other words, adding religious codes to already known narratives about conflicts did not have a significant impact on participants’ attitudes. In a subsequent SEM analysis, it was found that religiosity in both groups is strongly correlated with group-centricity, which negatively mediates its relationship with both forgiveness and reconciliation. We conclude that collectivistic forms of religiosity that privilege ingroup solidarity might have negative effects on ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 10, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Why are our political rivals so blind to the problems facing society? Evidence that political leftists and rightists in Israel mentally construe collective threats differently.
The present research examines the hypothesis that political leftists and rightists mentally construe collective threats differently, such that each political side views the threats that are meaningful to them as close and concrete, whereas other threats are underemphasized and perceived as distant and abstract. In two studies (total N = 796) we show that Israeli-Jewish political leftists perceive threats against democracy and tolerance as psychologically closer and more concrete than threats against security, whereas political rightists show the opposite tendency. We use a mixed methods approach and demonstrate these tende...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - May 6, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Addressing psychology to antiracism.
Reviews the book, A Psychology of Liberation and Peace: For the Greater Good by Chalmer E. F. Thompson (2019). Thompson's book makes a timely and an important contribution to scholarship on peace psychology and liberation psychology, both of which are understood as operating alongside one another, as a piece, throughout the book. Located in Palgrave Macmillan’s Pan-African Psychologies series, the book addresses both of these psychologies to the problem of racism in the United States. The respective languages, histories, and traditions of peace and liberation psychology appear to be of less concern to Thompson than how p...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Measuring perceptions of postconflict actors’ economic behavior: The case of Colombia.
Exposure to violence has lasting effects on economic behavior years after it has ended. Previous literature has proved that there is an increase in altruism, impatience, and risk-seeking. However, it is unknown if regular citizens, not directly involved in the conflict, perceive such economic behavior in postconflict actors. We asked participants to report, relative to them, how Colombia’s postconflict actors (ex-guerrillas, ex-paramilitaries, and victims) behave in different economic games (dictator game, lotteries, and intertemporal discounting). Our sample of university students believes that victims are less altruist...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research