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Interdependent fates: Youth and police—Can they make peace?
This study tested whether YPI, framed by field theory, changes youth and police perceptions of and attitudes toward each other. Data were collected through surveys, field observation, and pre-YPI and post-YPI interviews. Significant change (p (Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology)
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Intergroup conflict and the process of social change: Similar conflicts, different intragroup processes.
Intergroup conflicts can occur in any society at any moment, radically modifying the societies experiencing them. However, two societies experiencing highly similar intergroup conflicts can have very different consequences. Some may be plunged into dramatic social change—a state in which a rapid event ruptures the social and normative structures and highly threatens the cultural identity—whereas other societies are not. In this article, we argue that similar intergroup conflicts can result in different societal states because of each society’s initial societal state. Specifically, we use a Bayesian approach to the pr...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The salience of symbolic and material elements of transitional justice in peace processes.
This article uses a new data set of 72 peace processes worldwide to examine if material and symbolic aspects of transitional justice (TJ) are correlated with peace processes ending in full (comprehensive) peace agreements. Based on models of multivariate analysis, we found that symbolic elements—truth and reconciliation—are less salient in partial peace agreements but very salient in full agreements. When comparing material and symbolic elements of TJ and the ramifications of their integration into peace processes, we found that the symbolic elements of TJ—but not the material elements of TJ—correlate with peace pr...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 5, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Resistance to the six elements of political apologies: Who opposes which elements?
This study investigated which of these 6 elements people would most strongly oppose. Eight hundred Japanese participants (400 men and 400 women, aged 20 to 79 years) indicated how much resistance they would feel to the Japanese government’s expression of each of the 6 elements in a hypothetical political apology to an (unspecified) Asian country. The strongest resistance was associated with elements (a), (b), and (c), followed by elements (d) and (e), and the weakest resistance was reported for element (f). An exploratory cluster analysis identified the existence of a minority of the most resistant individuals (n = 64), ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - March 5, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

From war to life: Psychological well-being in adult victims of child recruitment.
The aim of this study was to analyze the psychological well-being of adult victims of child military recruitment in Colombia who were demobilized and are in a reintegration process. This group was compared with, first, a sample of victims from the Colombian armed conflict and, second, a group of people who were not victims, following Ryff’s (1989a) theory. A sequential exploratory mixed design was used. The three groups (each n = 35) were given the Multifactor Scale of Psychological Well-being (Ryff & Singer, 1996) questionnaire and a sociodemographic survey; additionally, interviews were conducted to obtain qualitative ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - February 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Exploring police-protester interactions.
Protests, despite being democratically reified modes of civic participation, are often positioned as being at odds with the state’s policing and regulatory networks. In seeking to develop an understanding of the constitution of peaceful protests (which, despite being more common than those understood as violent, remain understudied) as well as so-called soft-line policing, this article analyzes police-protester interactions as they unfold in film footage of a protest event that took place in South Africa in 2015. Our findings indicate that the interactions between protesters, protest marshals, and police are constrained ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - January 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Virtual reality as a tool for deradicalizing the terrorist mind: Conceptual and methodological insights from intergroup conflict resolution and perspective-taking research.
The radicalization of individuals and related commitment of acts of extreme violence, such as terrorism, have become one of the main societal concerns over the past years. Radicalization refers to a complex psychosocial process through which individuals adopt increasingly extreme convictions. The field of individuals’ deradicalization has attracted the interest of scholars and policymakers in recent years, and establishment of actual deradicalization programs has involved various components. The main aim of the current article is to propose an innovative methodological component for deradicalization programs based on imm...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - January 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“We do not negotiate with terrorists!” But what if we did?
Terrorist hostage-takings force authorities to decide whether or not to concede to the terrorists’ demands. Making an informed decision requires authorities to have a comprehensive understanding of the consequences of concessions to terrorists. Drawing on social exchange theory, we hypothesize that authority concessions to terrorist hostage-takers lead to more peaceful conflict resolutions with fewer casualties among hostages and in general. We analyzed ITERATE data (Mickolus, Sandler, Murdock, & Flemming, 2006) on international terrorist hostage-takings that occurred between 1983 and 2005. Results showed that even only ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - January 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Sexual behaviors among war-affected male youth in postconflict Sierra Leone.
This study explored sexual behaviors among a sample of adolescent males whose childhoods were affected by war (N = 169) in postconflict Sierra Leone. Results indicated that age of sexual debut was significantly associated with condom use. Specifically, those who had a sexual debut as midadolescents (15–17 years old) were less likely to have used a condom, compared to those who had a sexual debut as adults (18 or older). Furthermore, age was also significantly associated with having multiple partners in the last year. Older respondents indicated higher odds of having multiple partners. Findings suggest that this populatio...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - January 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Personal safety and positive life outcomes: Cross-national evidence from the World Values Survey.
Safety is a prerequisite for living a fulfilling and happy life. It is also an integral component of positive and negative peace and a basic foundation of social justice. However, personal safety has been understudied in psychological literature, as has its role as an antecedent of well-being and social justice. To address this, the current study provided evidence for the association of personal safety with positive life outcomes. Analyses were conducted using data from 59 countries via the World Values Survey. After controlling for subjective socioeconomic status, significant positive associations were observed between pe...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - January 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Narratives of cooperative ecological science: The case of Israel and Jordan.
As ecosystems do not follow human-made borders, cross-border environmental cooperation can be highly effective, perhaps even necessary, for both scientific insight and conservation efforts. Several environmental cooperation initiatives between Israel and Jordan emerged since the peace treaty of 1994. These initiatives had the explicit double goal of peacebuilding and enhancing regional environmental protection. However, as political relations between Israel and Jordan have been unstable and often tense during this period, cooperation toward these goals has often proved challenging. The current study investigates one such a...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - December 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Working together in the context of protracted asymmetric conflict: Israeli Jews and Palestinians in joint medical work teams.
This study examines intergroup contact in a real-life work setting of Jewish and Palestinian nurses working in joint medical work teams in Israel where membership is involuntary. Specifically, it investigates Jewish and Palestinian nurses’ experiences of working together in a hospital in Israel in the context of the protracted and asymmetric conflict between Israeli Jews and Palestinians. Thematic content analysis of 42 in-depth interviews, based on a grounded theory approach, reveals that Jewish and Palestinian employees alike experienced a sense of inequality and unfairness in the joint medical teams, blaming the other...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - September 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Echo chambers, inside and outside academia.
In this editorial, the author notes that a critical examination of the history of psychology exposes an unfortunate tendency for many psychologists to do what the poet William Butler Yeats described in his poem The Scholars: "think what other people think." This is reflected in the tendency for certain schools of thought, such as behaviorism, to gain dominance for long periods and become the mainstream, even though at a later stage, most psychologists look back and wonder in bewilderment at just how such “obviously wrong” perspectives could have become dominant for so long in their discipline. The author asserts that t...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - August 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The influence of authoritarianism and outgroup threat on political affiliations and support for antidemocratic policies.
An understanding of contemporary U.S. politics requires an understanding of authoritarianism and perceptions of outgroup threat. Previous research suggests that the threat of terrorism and growing authoritarianism within the Republican Party help to explain Donald Trump’s electoral victory (Hetherington & Weiler, 2009; MacWilliams, 2016). We replicated and extended previous findings through the use of 2 surveys completed by 704 participants and found that those higher in authoritarianism were more conservative, more Republican, more likely to support Trump, and more likely to perceive Mexicans and Muslims as threatening....
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Experimental evidence on determinants of support for nuclear use in response to threats of nuclear retaliation.
This paper utilizes survey experiments among representative samples of U.S. and South Korean citizens to investigate the strength of the nuclear taboo in both countries. It finds evidence that a majority of respondents in both countries prefer to respond to conventional military invasions with options that do not involve a nuclear first strike. Furthermore, the paper addresses the question: Can states alter support for nuclear use by credibly signaling their intent to avoid or limit nuclear escalation? The evidence suggests that they can. As the probability of nuclear retaliation increases, support for nuclear use decrease...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research