Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 
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Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 28(4), Nov 2022, 554-556; doi:10.1037/pac0000527Reviews the book, Warlike and Peaceful Societies: The Interaction of Genes and Culture by Agner Fog (2017). Is intergroup violence human nature? In this book, Fog attempts to answer this question by using regality theory and applying it to evidence from anthropology, psychology, and biology to history, political science, and economics. It includes both qualitative and quantitative analyses of various societies and cultures using regality theory. For the ubiquitous question of whether humans are violent or peaceful by nature...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - January 16, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Collaborative opportunities among psychology and early childhood professions.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(3), Aug 2023, 335; doi:10.1037/pac0000657Reviews the book, Cultivating a Culture of Nonviolence in Early Childhood Development Centers and Schools by Simon George Taukeni (2019). This book consists of 14 chapters covering topics of interest to child development professionals, including psychologists, educators, and social service providers. Authors describe a broad range of factors contributing to the vulnerability of children and youth experiencing violence and conflict, including sociocultural changes in family structure, inadequacy of schools to manage antisocial b...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - January 12, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Coping strategies for victims of farmer–herder conflicts in Ghana.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(4), Nov 2023, 448-458; doi:10.1037/pac0000655Farmer–herder conflicts occur in many agroecological areas in Ghana. These conflicts are often violent with devastating consequences. Interestingly, many victims of farmer–herder violence still live in conflict zones despite the dangers and threats to their lives. In order to survive in such situations, some coping strategies are needed. The study aims to provide a context-specific understanding of how conflict actors emotionally, cognitively, and behaviorally cope with the effects of violent conflicts in their own ways...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - December 22, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Accountability in the Russo-Ukrainian war: Vladimir Putin versus NATO.
This article showcases a discursive peace psychological analysis of Putin’s declaration of war and North Atlantic Treaty Organizations (NATO’s) subsequent response to it. By treating psychological categories as action-bound and occasioned, rather than cognitive features residing inside the minds of individuals, the analysis shows three rhetorical strategies used by Putin and NATO to manage their accountability in the context of initiating hostilities. First, both sides describe the events in a way that combines the factual and moral reading of them that favor them. Second, continuity is rhetorically established to just...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - December 15, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Are societies in conflict more susceptible to believe in COVID-19 conspiracy theories? A 66 nation study.
We examined, for the first time, the idea that the degree of intensity of conflict predicts the degree of belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories. A multilevel analysis across 66 countries (N = 46,450) demonstrated that people living in countries with higher conflict intensity tended to be more susceptible to COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs. These findings are the first large-scale comparative evidence of the profound psychological effects of conflicts on the involved societies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology)
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Welcome to the post-truth world!
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 28(4), Nov 2022, 573-574; doi:10.1037/pac0000648Reviews the book, Three Tweets to Midnight: Effects of the Global Information Ecosystem on the Risk of Nuclear Conflict edited by Harold A. Trinkunas et al. (2020). The essays in this book incorporate findings from cognitive psychology and decision analysis regarding “how leaders and publics receive, process and act on information, misinformation, and disinformation in the emerging global ecosystem …;” “how cyber-enabled influence operations may … take advantage of human cognitive biases and affect the perceptions...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The multifaceted challenges of crafting an introductory text into peace and conflict.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 28(4), Nov 2022, 561-564; doi:10.1037/pac0000649Reviews the books, Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies by Lois Edmund (2021) and Peace and Conflict Studies (5th Ed.) by David P. Barash and Charles P. Webel (2021). Edmund’s book takes an approach to peace and conflict studies that is engaging and oriented to both theory and practice. Everyday stories and historical examples are interwoven throughout the presentation of ideas, frameworks, and research. In contrast, the fifth edition of Barash and Webel’s Peace and Conflict Studies takes a more streamlined approa...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Peace psychology in Kashmir: Reflections of a frontline practitioner.
This report captures some of the ways in which the frontline practitioner attempts to support people’s needs, living through one of the most intractable armed conflicts of the world. Practical examples describe how psychological approaches are used in Kashmir to build safe spaces for trust, expression, dialogue, understanding of trauma, coping mechanisms at intra and inter levels, personal peace, especially for women and youth. Implications and questions for further research are presented; including the challenges for translating science into practice as well as practice into science in the context of peace psychology. (...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Deeds, not words: Understanding intergroup apology and forgiveness from different sides of conflict.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 28(3), Aug 2022, 397-405; doi:10.1037/pac0000622Repairing broken intergroup relations after conflict is a challenging process that becomes particularly complex when perpetrators and victims continue to live in the same community. In the present study, we have asked participants from different sides of the 1991–1995 conflict in Croatia to disentangle their understanding of apology and forgiveness 20 years after the war. We conducted focus groups with people who suffered war-related personal losses, those with no such losses, and young adults born after the conflict. The...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Coming together after genocide: How openness to communication about conflict experiences shapes willingness for social integration in post genocide Rwanda.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 28(3), Aug 2022, 384-396; doi:10.1037/pac0000625Enhancing prospects for social integration after genocide is important, as past research has shown that greater social integration in local communities can curb future outbreaks of violence (McDoom, 2014) and reduce the severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms associated with past violence (Rieder & Elbert, 2013). Thus, the present research seeks to extend prior work investigating factors that increase willingness for social integration (Kauff et al., 2021; Paolini et al., 2018; Ron et al., 2017) to a post genocide context...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
How intergroup contact shapes intergroup attitudes and construals of relations between ethnic groups: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This study found that youth reported significantly more positive attitudes following the Peace Camp Intervention; however, there were no significant pre–post differences in youths’ construals of relations between ethnic groups. Taken together, these findings indicate that, in contexts of ethnic conflict, intergroup contact may have greater effects on measures that tap into intergroup attitudes toward ethnic outgroups than on measures that assess their broader construals of relations between groups in society. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology)
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Do infrahumanization or affective prejudice drive teacher discrimination against Romani students? A conceptual replication of Bruneau et al. (2020) in Germany.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 28(3), Aug 2022, 340-344; doi:10.1037/pac0000609Bruneau’s work repeatedly focused on the Roma minority, worldwide, one of the most dehumanized ethnic groups. In a preregistered design, we replicated one of his previous studies (Bruneau et al., 2020) in a different national context (i.e., Germany) in testing the hypotheses that preservice teachers make biased educational-track recommendations discriminating against Romani students and that infrahumanization drives this behavior. In line with Bruneau et al.’s (2020) work, preservice teachers judged placing self-identif...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Leveraging knowledge about historical diversity: A meta-analysis of findings from the school of dialogue intergroup intervention.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 28(3), Aug 2022, 314-326; doi:10.1037/pac0000626The School of Dialogue is an intergroup intervention based on active engagement with historical ethnic diversity (i.e., contact with a multicultural past). Importantly, the intervention aims to ameliorate ethnic Poles’ attitudes toward Jews and improve levels of social capital (civic engagement and social trust) in Poland. We review and meta-analyze eight studies that evaluated the effects of the intervention conducted between 2012 and 2019 (Ntotal = 3,948). The results show that participation in the intervention contribu...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Putting science to work for peace: A special issue in honor of Emile Bruneau.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 28(3), Aug 2022, 269-273; doi:10.1037/pac0000632Emile Bruneau devoted his life to “putting science to work for peace,” and he wished that scientists, practitioners, and civil society would carry on this vision. The aim of this special issue is to document and advance those efforts—where science meets the real world and practice informs inquiry. This special issue brings together over a dozen different research articles that continue Emile’s vision of understanding the biological and social roots of conflict and developing interventions to promote peace. The artic...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Peace psychology in Kashmir: Reflections of a frontline practitioner.
This report captures some of the ways in which the frontline practitioner attempts to support people’s needs, living through one of the most intractable armed conflicts of the world. Practical examples describe how psychological approaches are used in Kashmir to build safe spaces for trust, expression, dialogue, understanding of trauma, coping mechanisms at intra and inter levels, personal peace, especially for women and youth. Implications and questions for further research are presented; including the challenges for translating science into practice as well as practice into science in the context of peace psychology. (...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
