Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 
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This response to the 5 excellent commentaries on our target article discusses 4 cross-cutting themes that are evident in the commentaries. Building on the insights from the commentaries, it makes suggestions about how to strengthen efforts to reduce and end violence against children by addressing both structural and direct forms of violence against children. (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
The moonshot and ending violence against children.
Wessells and Kostelny take on the challenge of ending violence against children, a global problem that calls for cooperative problem solving on a global scale. They diagnose the problem by unpacking some of the structural and cultural antecedents and consequences of violent episodes. Using a social systems model, their thick, contextual analysis makes it clear that the goal of eliminating violence will require a deeper understanding of the interplay of cultural and structural dynamics than has been appreciated heretofore. Efforts to eliminate violence against children have been beset by a number of methodological and epist...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Recognizing the diverse and complex nature of violence in childhood.
Research on the prevention and intervention against violence in childhood is urgently needed. In contrast to a narrow approach, typically focused on physical violence against children, the authors offer a novel and urgently needed framework that captures the episodic, structural and cultural nature of both violence and peace. Ranging from intersectional risks to global climate change, we comment on the utility of this approach, as well as possible extensions. We echo the call for recognizing children’s agency, shown in our own research on children’s peacebuilding in settings of protracted political conflict, and link t...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Local ownership: Building on the connections between structural and episodic violence in children’s lives.
This Brief Report reviews and comments on a featured paper in this same issue on Understanding and Ending Violence against Children, by Michael Wessels and Kathleen Kostelny. The review focuses primarily on Wessels’ and Kostelny’s attention to structural violence and its implications, and notes how unusual this is in the field of child protection, and how important. Wessels’ and Kostelny’s more ecological-than-usual orientation is reflected also in the responses they endorse, focusing as they do on local understandings and ownership, rather than on short-term imported projects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 AP...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Commentary on Wessells and Kostelny: Understanding and ending violence against children: A holistic approach.
Wessells and Kostelny (2021) have provided a comprehensive overview of the sources of violence against children (VAC) and global efforts to combat it. They point out that preventive interventions focus on direct violence and highlight neglect of the wide ranging consequences of inequities associated with structural and cultural violence. In this commentary, I offer four points that should be considered in local, national and global efforts to address violence to children. First I suggest that it is helpful to draw on Marxian traditions to deepen our understanding the role of ideology in VAC, in particular, the manner in wh...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The role of social norms, violence against women, and measurement in the global commitment to end violence against children.
This commentary identifies and underscores the importance of key considerations for the global commitment to end violence against children. The authors draw from recent research to highlight the overlap in risk factors for violence against women and children and argue for greater coordination and collaboration in the prevention of both forms of violence; such collaboration may be particularly fruitful in humanitarian settings, where existing risk factors for violence against children are exacerbated and new risk factors abound. The review also emphasizes the integral role social norms can play in fostering and reducing vio...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Understanding and ending violence against children: A holistic approach.
This article analyzes how violence against children is a significant problem of peace, and it uses some of the main peace analytic concepts to illuminate the origins of violence against children and the likely means of preventing and ending it. Using a social ecological framework, the article first outlines the scale and the diverse forms of episodic violence against children at different levels. Next, it examines how structural and cultural violence against children undergird and, in turn, are supported by episodic violence against children. The article then examines current global efforts to end violence against children...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Ethos of conflict as the prism to evaluate the Northern Irish and the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts by the involved societies: A comparative analysis.
The present study compared participants’ evaluations of their own conflict with their evaluation of another conflict. These evaluations were examined through the prism of the ideological ethos of conflict (EOC), which was seen as the major contributing factor in the development of the biased perceptions, divergent understandings, and emotional responses previously observed among groups in conflict. The participants in the study were students: Protestants and Catholics from Northern Ireland, Jews and Palestinians from Israel, and an additional group of Swiss students. They were presented with four scenarios: Two scenarios...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 25, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Threats to democracy.
Reviews the book, Threat to Democracy: The Appeal of Authoritarianism in an Age of Uncertainty by Fathali M. Moghaddam (2019). The core argument of this book suggests that the threat to democracy comes from populist movements and dictatorial leaders. There are numerous citations and references, but mostly the argument Moghaddam presents tends to be but tressed by his own personal experiences, notably in Iran where he was living during the brief period of opening after the fall of the Shah and before the consolidation of the current theocratic regime, as well as his observations as a traveler in various countries in eastern...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 25, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Playing with the enemy: Investigating the impact of musical peacebuilding.
Musical performances are frequently used in peacebuilding initiatives. Can performing music together indeed change interpersonal and intergroup perceptions of the other as the enemy? Using contact theory for our theoretical framework, we hypothesize that the specific mechanism of listening during active music-making helps to establish the positive effects of intergroup contact. Additionally, we explore to what extent participants become peace facilitators when returning to their home environments. In two small-scale studies, we find preliminary support for active listening as a mechanism of trust-enhancing contact. However...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 25, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Radicalization and deradicalization: A qualitative analysis of parallels in relevant risk factors and trigger factors.
We analyzed five narrative interviews with individuals who disengaged from Islamist extremist and Salafist ideologies in an early stage of radicalization (Study 1) and seven semistructured expert interviews with employees of German deradicalization programs (Study 2) to explore which root factors are common to both radicalization and deradicalization and how they manifest. Employing a coding-reliability approach to Thematic Analyses, we constructed five themes central in radicalization and deradicalization, respectively. Parallels between radicalization and deradicalization (themes: social surroundings, exclusion vs. accep...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 25, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
National identity misrecognition and attitudes toward the French mainstream society.
Drawing on the rejection-identification (Branscombe et al., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1999, 77, 135) and rejection-disidentification (Jasinskaja-Lahti et al., Applied Psychology: An International Review, 2009, 58, 105) models, we examined the effects of national identity misrecognition on attitudes toward the French mainstream society among Maghrebi-French and Muslim minority group members. We conducted a survey (N = 190) and two experiments (N = 103; 190), in which we measured and manipulated, respectively, the feeling of misrecognition (i.e., having one’s national identity denied by the mainstream)....
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 22, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Righteous rage as political power.
As the political conflicts in the United States intensified in recent years, expressions of righteous rage have increased significantly among political protesters, pundits, and governmental figures. As an intense form of anger, such expressions tend to serve as a rationale for violence. In this article, I analyze the character of righteous rage in terms of distinct, yet interlinking, social, psychological, and political processes. Such processes reveal the multiple dimensions of righteous rage as conveyed by conflict actors in public performances. These processes are revealed in cases where an enraged individual, such as t...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 18, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Sense of community coherence and perceptions of collective narratives in postconflict context: The mediating role of subjective experience of interpersonal power.
This study aimed to explore intergroup relations in the context of post−armed conflict between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo. We expected subjective experience of interpersonal power (SEIP) to mediate the relationships between sense of community coherence (SOCC) and perceptions of contradictory collective narratives. Data were collected in Kosovo by self-administered questionnaires among 202 Albanians (87 women) and 122 Serbs (49 women) from 18 to 69 years old. The results confirmed the suggested model, and SEIP mediated the relationships between SOCC and perceptions of the ingroup’s and outgroups’ collective narrati...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 18, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Critical periods in group development.
For a number of reasons, the topic of critical periods in group development is of central importance for practicing and researching peace psychologists. Although inter-individual conflict is important, peace psychology is primarily focused on intergroup conflict. This is because the most destructive kind of conflict, such as between ethnic and religious groups, as well as between nations, is intergroup rather than inter-individual. Second, intergroup conflict involves collective processes that tend to be long-term, spanning years, sometimes decades and even centuries. During the course of these collective processes, the po...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
