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Peace and personality: The relationship between the five-factor model’s personality traits and the Peace Attitude Scale.
Because a peaceful environment favors the thriving of individuals, communities, and nations, efforts to investigate the factors promoting peace can be considered among the most virtuous research undertakings. Personality seems to influence peace attitudes, and this study examines whether and which Big Five subscales influence peace attitudes. In our study, 121 individuals (80 female), completed the Big Five Questionnaire and the Peace Attitude Scale. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to investigate which traits better predict peace attitudes. Results confirmed existing evidence: Conscientiousness and Openness to Ex...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The effects of potential benefit on support for reparations for intergroup harm.
As citizen support is often key in compelling governments to provide reparations, it is important to understand the predictors of citizen support. In two studies, we examined whether and how considering the potential benefits rather than costs of providing reparations affected support for an official government apology and financial compensation. All participants were White Canadian undergraduates, who learned about a previously displaced outgroup community; the community was Black in Study 1, and in Study 2, the community was Black or Indigenous. When the community was Black, participants in the benefit conditions were mo...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 4, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Legitimizing state violence: A comparative positioning analysis of discourses from the government and citizen supporters of the antidrug operations.
This study suggests that citizen discourse constructs state violence as acceptable on a different and yet equivalent level to the discourse of government politicians. We recommend for research in sociopolitical fields to shift in focus to comparatively analyze the unique discourses of both citizens and governments for episodes of national violence. (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 - May 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Responsibility to protest: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of motives for protest participation in Myanmar.
Why do people protest in contexts known for violent suppression and imprisonment of protesters? There is a lack of psychological research on protest participation in repressive contexts. We address this gap by asking how individuals in Myanmar understand their motives for participating in a 2015 protest march against the enactment of the National Education Law (NEL), which was perceived to limit academic freedom and centralize control over education policy. The movement ended in a violent crackdown, involving the arrests of students, activists, and others. Applying interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to semistru...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - May 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Behind the intractability of communal conflicts in Africa: The case of the Nkonya–Alavanyo conflict in Ghana.
In this article, I move away from the rather active and bloodier conflicts to which there exists significant academic literature to the rarely researched, less bloody and latent communal violence. Based on archival documents and in-depth semistructured interviews conducted in Ghana with analysis of transcript following a thematic approach, I examine from the perspective of the Nkonyas, the intractability of the Nkonya–Alavanyo conflict in Ghana, which, despite many attempts at resolution, persists for almost a century. The findings suggest that, in the view of the Nkonyas, the conflict remains insoluble due to (1) the no...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - May 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Children born of wartime rape on fatherhood: Grappling with violence, accountability, and forgiveness in postwar northern Uganda.
Children born of wartime rape face unique realities and needs, particularly as they relate to their birth origins, links with their perpetrator fathers, and challenges regarding identity and community belonging. As children with first-hand, embodied understanding of the legacies of war, their perspectives on postwar accountability and reconciliation are highly relevant. Yet the views of children born of wartime rape are rarely documented. To highlight their perspectives, qualitative interviews were conducted with 79 children born of wartime rape within the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Interviews revealed childre...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Beliefs about human nature as good versus evil influence intergroup attitudes and values.
In 4 studies (Ns = 392, 199, 138, and 308), we address whether priming people with the idea that human nature is good (vs. evil or neither good nor evil) can lead them to see outgroups more positively. The first 3 experiments showed that priming a positive spin on human nature influenced people to see others more positively and to endorse more prosocial values. Across all 4 studies, results demonstrated that the more participants believed that human nature is good, the more they viewed a specific outgroup’s nature as good, and the more they saw all people as sharing a common human identity. These studies support the idea...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A philosophical and psychological examination of “justice first”: Toward the need for both justice and forgiveness when conflict arises.
The theme of “justice first” is pervasive in many quarters of the world in which there seems to be an entrenched injustice. In this commentary on the theme of “justice first,” we examine this construct and propose an additive idea that justice alone is not necessarily the best way to proceed. Instead, the seeking of justice combined with the exercise of the moral virtue of forgiveness may be a healthier way of responding. (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 - April 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Military culture’s influence on enlistment advice for potential military recruits: An application of Allport’s intergroup contact theory.
American military conflicts have not always been popular, exemplified through public opinion polls regarding U.S. military engagements and veterans of the Vietnam and post-9/11 eras. Drawing upon Allport’s intergroup contact theory, this study identifies individual-level factors shaping perceptions of U.S. military veterans through the lens of advice given to potential military recruits. Utilizing Pew Research Center Veterans & Generational Change and Veterans Surveys (n = 3,856), this study examines the influence of familial exposure to military culture, views of military service, personal beliefs, and demographic chara...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Forum theater can improve intergroup attitudes, sense of community, and collective action intentions: Evidence from Liberia.
After a civil war or other forms of mass violence, a society needs to reestablish trust between formerly conflicting groups and take peaceful collective actions to address the root causes of the conflict. We propose that one method of facilitating improved intergroup attitudes, a sense of community, and collective action intentions is Forum Theater (Boal, 1989); we tested this prediction in postwar Liberia. In 2 communities, 218 diverse Liberians participated in a field experiment evaluating 2 Forum Theater plays (one about rebuilding trust following intergroup conflict and one about a public health issue); we also include...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Analysis of relationships between presidential leadership styles and peace policies in Colombia (1982–2017).
The purpose of is article is to examine the relationship between presidents’ leadership styles and peace policies in the Colombian armed conflict. To do so, this study analyzes the peace policies and styles of Colombia’s presidents from 1982 to 2017. The structure of this article is as follows: an examination of the literature on leadership styles and peace policies in turbulent conflicts and a definition of the theoretical framework; a review of the historical-biographical context; a description of the methodology, specifically an explanation of the content analysis employed to measure leadership styles; an analysis o...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Peace and development indicators in Liberia youth through sport for development programming.
Sherrod (2017) called for more empirical research on strategies designed to foster positive development among youth in the majority world and sport has been identified as a potentially effective grassroots developmental intervention (United Nations, 2005; Whitley et al., 2019). Recognizing the extreme challenges confronting Liberian youth from a civil war and Ebola crisis, a sport-for-development program called Life and Change Experienced Through Sport (L.A.C.E.S.) for marginalized youth was established. L.A.C.E.S. seeks to use sport and character activities to cultivate aspects of positive youth development including soci...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Religiosity and perceived religious discrimination as predictors of support for suicide attacks among Muslim Americans.
Some argue that religiosity is one of the main causes of religious extremist violence, such as suicide attacks, while others propose that adverse circumstances associated with religiosity like perceived religious discrimination are responsible. Directly comparing these two perspectives, we investigated how religiosity (personal importance of religion, prayer frequency, religious service attendance, religious fundamentalism) and perceived religious discrimination predict support for suicide attacks in 2 samples of Muslim Americans (N₁ = 1,050; N₂ = 1,033). We found that most participants did not support religious extrem...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

National honor and personal dignity perceptions, legitimization of the narrative of the “other,” and willingness to reconcile: The case of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
The sense of national honor and personal dignity have been identified as basic elements in national conflict cultures. In the current study we examined the contribution of national honor and human dignity perceptions to willingness to reconcile with the Palestinians among a sample of 343 Israeli Jewish university students. Legitimization of Palestinian narratives was examined as a mediator of the relationships between personal dignity, national honor perceptions, and willingness to reconcile. The findings indicate 2 contradicting directions: While honor perceptions correlate negatively with willingness to reconcile, human ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Listening to individual stories: Understanding subjective experiences of collective victimization.
Reviews the book, The Victims of Slavery, Colonization and the Holocaust: A Comparative History of Persecution by Kitty Millet (2018). This book provides a valuable framework that enables a more nuanced, richer analysis of the history of collective victimization. Millet's focus on individual narratives as an integral aspect of the shared narratives of a group provides valuable lessons regarding psychological research methods as well as theoretical approaches to this topic. The book is a great resource for graduate students and researchers (and indeed concerned members of the public) who are interested in the topic of colle...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research