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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

Deeds, not words: Understanding intergroup apology and forgiveness from different sides of conflict.
Repairing 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 major research question was as follows: How do different community actors understand intergroup apol...
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.
Enhancing 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. Study 1 used self-reported responses from a large community survey (n = 435), and Study 2 used pre ...
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.
Bruneau’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-identified Romani students into lower educational tracks as more appropriate than self-identified Turkish-or...
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.
The 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 contributes to building knowledge and interest in local history, more positive attitudes toward Jewish people...
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.
Emile 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 articles published in this special issue focus on conflict and peacebuilding across the globe, incorporate...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - November 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The immaterial reparation: Identity, agency, and restorative justice.
This article uses qualitative analysis to examine the personal narratives of 26 war survivors of two massacres, La Chinita and the Naya river massacres, some of whom had participated in processes of restorative justice. Results show that displacement produces an identity crisis characterized by discontinuity in participants’ roles. We found, additionally, that restorative justice favors the development of agentic responses to the identity crisis, by supporting participants’ active participation in the search of justice and reparation. Agentic responses are related to restorative justice because they depend on guarantee...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - October 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Contemporary dynamics in religious practices: Community multiple embeddedness and conflicting encounters between Buddhist monks and the laity in Sri Lanka.
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(3), Aug 2023, 326-334; doi:10.1037/pac0000640Informed by the concept of discourse community (DC), this empirical research involving 759 participants critically explores the conflicting encounters between Buddhist monks (monks) and the laity in Sri Lanka owing to unorthodox discursive practices emerging from community multiple embeddedness (multiple embeddedness). A DC consists of a group of people who pursue specific goals and engage in practices (discursive practices) common to them; multiple embeddedness occurs when members of such a community share common goals and...
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - October 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research