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Persistent faces: Palestinian fatherhood against necropower.
This article centers the voices of a Palestinian father, and his son, Hassan, in their opposition to settler-colonial dehumanization. The defacing of 15-year-old Hassan occurred when he was shot and killed by the state apparatus, taken from his family and loved ones, and kept in a freezing space of no life. His father’s refusal to accept Hassan’s frozen body as a dehumanized one made him read Hassan’s teared-up eyes, wounded mouth, and face as resistance to his undignified death. The father challenged the necropenological weaponization of his dead child’s body and transmutation of grief through his act of refusal. ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 5, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Decolonization unnamed: Echoes of healing and refusal in the face of dehumanization and alienation.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(2), May 2023, 77-81; doi:10.1037/pac0000686In this concluding article of our two-part special issue entitled, Perspectives on Colonial Violence “From Below”: Decolonial Resistance, Healing, and Justice, we share reflections on the multiplicity of colonial violences that authors speak to in the articles we accepted for publication. We invite readers to contend with the transnational imbrications of dehumanization and alienation as well as decolonial struggles that have emerged in a myriad of praxes against these colonial violences: from the borderlands of the India...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - June 5, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Spontaneous contact and intergroup attitudes in asymmetric protracted ethno-national conflict: East Jerusalem Palestinian students in an Israeli academic setting.
This study examines how spontaneous encounters with Jewish students while attending an Israeli academic institution are associated with young East Jerusalem Palestinian students’ attitudes toward the integration of East Jerusalem Palestinians into the city of Jerusalem and cooperation with Israeli Jews. We analyze the responses to an online survey of 106 East Jerusalem Palestinian students attending a 1-year preparatory program at an Israeli academic institute. We find that Palestinian students who report spontaneous contact with Jewish students on campus during the year express more favorable attitudes toward the integr...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - May 29, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Formation of hatred emotions toward Afghan refugees in Iran: A grounded theory study.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(4), Nov 2023, 355-364; doi:10.1037/pac0000685Most studies on refugee–host relations focus on attitudes toward refugees based on ethnic and religious differences. In the current research, we focus on how negative attitudes toward refugees are formed in a non-Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic context between followers of the same faith. Specifically, we explore the social processes in work to build negative emotions against Afghan refugees in a societal context, Iran, that bears considerable cultural and historical similarities to Afghan society i...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - May 25, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Is positive youth development a pathway for sustaining peace in Tanzania? Predicting peace attitudes among adolescents.
This study examines attitudes about peace, social justice, and community participation among Tanzanian adolescents and explores how positive youth development (PYD) contributes to these attitudes. Despite an absence of major wars and civil conflicts, Tanzania is not insulated from threats to its stability including unemployment, resource inequities, environmental degradation, ethnoreligious tensions, and increased government restrictions on the media and society. The large population of adolescents in Tanzania places additional strain on society. Promoting PYD among adolescents has been identified as a key strategy for ach...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - May 18, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Brexit: Threat or opportunity? Nationalist identification is related to the perceived likelihood of a United Ireland.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(4), Nov 2023, 365-373; doi:10.1037/pac0000682Northern Ireland has long been a contested territory. The 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement seemed to offer a resolution to the long-standing conflict. However, it has been reawakened by Brexit. Brexit presents a threat in Northern Ireland because it raises the divisive question of the United Kingdom’s sovereignty over the region and the issue of the border. However, despite Nationalists’—a political identity group associated with the political ideology of Irish reunification—initial opposition to Brexit, many in t...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - May 4, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Failed to unite? Conceptualizations of Bosnian–Herzegovinian national identity.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(4), Nov 2023, 345-354; doi:10.1037/pac0000681Identifying with superordinate identities can improve intergroup relations but sometimes it can backfire. Bosnia and Herzegovina offer a real-life context for studying social recategorization after violent conflict, which has not often been done in social psychological research. We applied Q methodology to explore the conceptualizations of Bosnian–Herzegovinian national identity, a category superordinate to ethnic identities of groups living there. Fifty participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina assessed to what extent eac...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - May 4, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Therapy today and its abandonment of the marginalized.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(3), Aug 2023, 342-343; doi:10.1037/pac0000675Reviews the book, How Psychologists Failed: We Neglected the Poor and Minorities, Favored the Rich and Privileged, and Got Science Wrong by Fathali M. Moghaddam (2022). This book urges us to look beyond causal reductionism, yet it does not mention the loss of a sense of the sacred in the world today. What is overlooked is the need to restore a spiritual dimension to psychology, which is key to rehabilitating a true “science of the soul.” Although Moghaddam calls for the full support of disadvantaged minorities, nowhere ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - May 4, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Future problem-solving technique for promoting reconciliation between Palestinian and Jewish citizens in Israel.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(4), Nov 2023, 389-393; doi:10.1037/pac0000678The present study presents Future Problem-Solving (FPS) as an instructional method, new to the field of peace education. FPS curriculum was used as an intervention with the goal of increasing participants’ capacity for reconciliation. Both the research group, which learned by using FPS technique, and the control group, which did not, comprised Palestinian citizens of Israel who were students in peace education courses at a peripheral college in Israel. Variance analysis and partial least squares structural equation modeli...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - May 1, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Returning home with Dr. Ibrahim Makkawi: Toward Palestinian decolonial states of being.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(2), May 2023, 194-201; doi:10.1037/pac0000669We, two Palestinians in the Diaspora, have come together to write this article as an enactment of sumoud صمود (perseverance in Arabic). We write for enduring being in the face of ongoing capture and colonization of our communities, lands, truths, hearts, and minds. In this article, we share our critical reflections on the decolonial teachings and praxis of Palestinian psychologist Dr. Ibrahim Makkawi, who we lost to cancer on February 9, 2022. Throughout this article, we share our critical insights into our work guided ...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Production of the meaning of justice in the aftermath of war in Sudan.
This article concentrates on the construction of meanings of justice among civilians in the aftermath of war and mass violence. The article explores how such meanings are constructed, either from perceptions and memories of times of peace or memories of times of war. Based on the analysis of oral histories in the three regions of Sudan—Darfur, the Nuba Mountains region of South Kordofan, and Blue Nile state—we conducted cross-sectional analysis of themes related to the experiences of peace, war, and justice. The method of data collection was oral history interviews that concentrated on eyewitness testimony of responden...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“Act up, you can get snatched up”: Critical reflections on counterstorytelling and healing justice as paths to decoloniality.
This article argues for the importance of taking a decolonial turn when seeking to understand and contest the multiple layers of colonial violences that shape the lives of people of color. In particular, this article explores pathways of countering colonial violence endemic within the academy as two women of color psychology graduate students writing from within a Global North academic institution. This article theorizes beyond Whitestream psychology frameworks of wellness, toward including decolonial perspectives and reflecting on the power and potential of counterstorytelling and healing justice. (PsycInfo Database Recor...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Odor, deodorization, and reodorization: Reflections of olfactory discrimination in the chars of Assam, India.
This article examines how the racialization of perceived smell relates to Miya people’s everyday struggles in Assam. The emphasis will be on the attempts made by the community to resist the trope of the “foul-smelling Miya.” Data for the article are drawn from fieldwork conducted in a char (floodplain) of central Assam’s Darrang district in 2016 and 2017. Fieldwork highlighted that the community has developed the idea of reodorization to counter the overarching narrative of a “foul-smelling Miya.” The act of using deodorants otherwise understood to mask smell (deodorization), was reinstated to mean aestheticiza...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Forgiveness education as a form of peace education with fifth-grade students: A pilot study with implications for educators.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(3), Aug 2023, 235-246; doi:10.1037/pac0000676A 10-week forgiveness education curriculum based on a developmentally appropriate version of Enright’s process model was taught to two classes of fifth graders (Primary 6, ages 10–11, N = 30) attending a low-income school in a midwestern city in the United States. An exploratory, single-group pretest–posttest design was used to examine changes in forgiveness toward a specific offender, forgiveness knowledge and understanding, and levels of anger. Following the education, the students illustrated statistically signific...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 3, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Letters between Beirut and New York: Love, resistance, and perpetual uncertainty.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(1), Feb 2023, 69-75; doi:10.1037/pac0000652The following is a series of letters between Nur and Nawal—two friends, writers, and researchers. Nur is a qualitative researcher in Beirut, Lebanon, whose ethnographic projects focus on gender, social capital, mutual aid, climate, and mental health. She studied comparative politics at the American University of Beirut and the London School of Economics. She is currently pursuing an MSt in creative writing at the University of Oxford. Nawal, who was raised in Beirut, is a clinical psychology PhD candidate in New York. Her d...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - April 3, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research