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How can we use language to help build peace?
Reviews the book, Peacebuilding in Language Education: Innovations in Theory and Practice edited by Rebecca L. Oxford, M. Matilde Olivero, Melinda Harrison, and Tammy Gregersen (2020). This edited book is organized into sections based on the language of peace approach described in the first chapter, which conceptualizes peace as consisting of six dimensions: inner peace, interpersonal peace, inter group peace, intercultural peace, international peace, and ecological peace. Drawing on a nested conception of peace that ranges from internal/inner peace to peace at the global and ecological levels, the editors of this text eng...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The place of peace in the ITER machine assembly launch: Thematic analysis of the political speeches in the world’s largest science diplomacy experiment.
This study begins by reviewing the historical importance of peace in the ITER fusion experiment, the world's largest science diplomacy experiment, including by referencing other nuclear peacebuilding attempts, like the Baruch Plan and Atoms for Peace. It thematically analyses the speeches delivered by ITER consortium member state leaders at the July 28, 2020 ITER Machine Assembly Phase launch, which covered topics including fusion being a clean and safe form of energy and fusion's potential applications for climate management. The study emphasizes that Putin and the US representative did not reference peace, despite ITER b...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 22, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A framework for guiding transformative growth after school shootings.
This article presents a broad framework for facilitating long-term psychological growth that can be integrated into high school curricula. It is based on the complementary theories of Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) and Transformative Learning (TL), which explain how positive psychological change can occur after a traumatic event disrupts a person’s assumptive worldview. The three segments of the TL process—questioning, exploring, and experimenting—facilitate PTG by transforming established beliefs into broader meaning perspectives that accommodate present realities. The framework below provides an organized approach to ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 15, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Young mothers of Northern Uganda: A longitudinal study of individual and collective agency within a participatory program.
In this study, a group of young mothers, local organizations, and community members in Gulu, Uganda created a self-directed, participatory, peer support program. Guided by the theory of social spaces and gender-based analyses, we examined the development of women’s individual and collective agency within the group over 2 years. The results illustrate that individual and collective agency gradually emerged in the group, and document key barriers to and supports for agency. Findings complement and extend the research on the development of agency of war-affected young mothers, and recommendations for reintegration programmi...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 12, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Unfreezing of the conflict due to the peace agreement with FARC–EP in Colombia: Signature (2016) and implementation (2018).
The signing of the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC–EP) guerrilla in 2016 symbolized a de-escalation of the conflict. But, in addition to the political will of the parties previously in conflict, it is necessary to transform the psychosocial infrastructure of the culture of conflict. To analyze this dynamic, beliefs and emotions that constitute barriers to peace, and those that allow for an unfreezing, were studied in narratives of 1,231 Colombians at two different moments in time: the signing of the agreement in 2016, and its implementa...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 8, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Emotions for solidarity: The relations of moral outrage and sympathy with hierarchy-challenging and prosocial hierarchy-maintaining action intentions in support of refugees.
As millions of people flee their countries due to violent conflict and climate change, high support from host societies is desperately needed. One option to increase support could be to induce emotional reactions that elicit prosocial action. To facilitate a needs-adequate support it is important to know if prosocial emotions lead to specific prosocial actions. Based on past research (Nadler, Journal of Social Issues, 2002, 58, 487), we distinguish between potentially hierarchy-challenging (e.g., demanding equal rights for refugees) and prosocial actions that may be hierarchy-maintaining (e.g., dependency-oriented helping)...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 8, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Sense of community coherence, perceptions of collective narratives, and identity strategies in intra- and interreligious group conflicts.
The aim of this article is to develop understanding of intra- and interreligious conflicts. We explored the relationships between sense of community coherence, perceptions of collective narratives, and identity strategies in the context of two religious conflicts in Israeli society: The intrareligious conflict between ultra-Orthodox Jews and national-religious Jews and between Muslim and Christian Arab Israeli citizens. Questionnaires were administered to 401 ultra-Orthodox Jews (180 males), 388 national-religious Jews (186 males), 1,321 Muslims (603 males), and 928 Christians (455 males). We hypothesized that the relation...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 1, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Police violence during citizens’ protests: Dehumanization processes, legitimation of violence, and hostility.
Police forces, being representative of the state, have the monopoly on violence in society, but also need to legitimize their use of force. So, what are the psychosocial underpinnings of police use of force and its legitimation, particularly, when this violence is directed against citizens who exercise their democratic right to protest? We explored this issue by studying legitimation of violence and feelings of hostility together with the processes of dehumanization, meta-dehumanization, and self-dehumanization among members of riot police squads who operated during the deterrence of the pro-independence referendum in Cata...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 1, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Why children may be coveted by terrorist groups and what to do about it.
Reviews the book, Small Arms: Children and Terrorism by Mia Bloom and John Horgan (2019). In this book, Bloom and Horgan examine how children come to be involved in terrorist organizations, adopting a social-ecological model. They specifically attempt to expand collective understanding of terrorist groups’ motivations for targeting children, the social conditions leading children to become mobilized, and their roles within these organizations. One of the most compelling claims in Small Arms is that children are not merely instruments of these groups. Rather, they are conscious agents who respond to organizational recruit...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 1, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The merits and limitation of incentive theory in application to gray zone conflicts.
Reviews the book, Lifting the fog of war by John Norton Moore, Robert F. Turner, Michael Mott, Nathaniel Freeman, and Margaret Kelly (2018). The volume makes an important contribution to the fields of political psychology and international relations by highlighting the necessity to interweave different levels of analysis, methodologies and empirical evidence to examine international conflicts. The first section of the book, discussing the effects of human personality and cognitive biases on national decision making, is especially valuable to understand states’ behavior following the onset of international crises. The sec...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Conceptualizing trust between groups: An empirical validation of the five-dimensional intergroup trust model.
The fundamental difference between intergroup conflict and intergroup peace is trust. Without some degree of trust, it is difficult for groups in conflict to initiate, engage, and maintain the reconciliation process. However, despite of the recognized importance of trust, there is currently no shared conceptual understanding of intergroup trust. Historically, trust has been conceptualized in many distinct ways. This research introduces the Intergroup Trust Model (IGT-Model), which postulates that trust consists of five dimensions: competence, integrity, compassion, compatibility, and security. The IGT-Model opens up a sign...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The parenting process in Syrian refugees: A grounded theory study.
A key concern of peace psychology is to develop a robust evidence base that informs those working with groups who have experienced the impact of war and conflict (Cohrs et al., American Psychologist, 2013, 68, 590). With rates of refugees forcibly displaced now the highest on record the development of psychosocial interventions designed to promote well-being is essential (Hynie, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 2018, 24, 265; UNHCR, UNHCR projected global resettlement needs, 2020). This is highly relevant for refugee parents who must parent through multiple adversities and transitions. Effective parenting i...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Under a constant shadow: The Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the traumatic memory of the Holocaust.
This article examines the role of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as a coping mechanism for Israeli Jewish society, still struggling to contain the traumatic memories of the Holocaust. The article examines the relevance of psychoanalytical concepts seldom discussed in the context of intractable conflicts. The intractability of the conflict with the Palestinians enables Israeli society to generate a relationship with an external object, which is used to decrease tensions between its inner reality and the external world. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology)
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

An investigation of perceptions of (un)just systems: Tests of rationalization in the context of Irish austerity measures.
Following a global economic collapse in 2008, the Irish accepted economic hardship in the years immediately following the financial downturn without demonstrating. Why did not the Irish protest in response to the economic collapse, especially when other countries hit by the economic collapse did? Here, we empirically test ideas put forth in previous qualitative work: that a culturally ingrained moral principle, in life, “you reap what you sow,” helps explain why the Irish passively accepted austerity without protesting. We predicted if Irish acceptance of austerity occurred because of the belief their own actions cause...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Toward a broader, more inclusive mosaic of learning for ending violence in childhood.
This article considers the proposal to incorporate structural and cultural forms of violence in childhood insofar as this expanded framework impacts research, learning, and evaluation efforts. It takes stock of current efforts to measure violence in childhood, considers proposals made to enhance research and evaluation efforts, and concludes by suggesting three forms of expansion of research and learning efforts: broadening the indicators we are using to capture data; broadening the analytical frameworks for evaluation; and broadening the set of stakeholders participating in measurement and learning efforts. The framework ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research