Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation

From Violent Conflict to Peaceful Co-Existence

Edited by Arie Nadler, Thomas Malloy, and Jeffrey D. Fisher

Establishses a new agenda for social-psychological research and theory
Organized around the distinction between socio-emotional and instrumental reconciliation efforts
Written by some of the most prominent social psychologists working in the field of inter-group relations
Provides links between social psychological science and the real world

Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation

From Violent Conflict to Peaceful Co-Existence

Edited by Arie Nadler, Thomas Malloy, and Jeffrey D. Fisher

Description

The volume begins with an overview by Herbert Kelman discussing reconciliation as distinct from related processes of conflict settlement and conflict resolution. Following that, the first section of the volume focuses on intergroup reconciliation as consisting of moving beyond feelings of guilt and victimization (i.e., socio-emotional reconciliation). These processes include acceptance of responsibility for past wrongdoings and being forgiven in return. Such processes must occur on the background of restoring and maintaining feelings of esteem and respect for each of the parties. The chapters in the second section focus on processes through which parties learn to co-exist in a conflict free environment and trust each other (i.e., instrumental reconciliation). Such learning results from prolonged contact between adversarial groups under optimal conditions. Chapters in this section highlight the critical role of identity related processes (e.g., common identity) and power equality in this context. The contributions in the third part apply the social-psychological insights discussed previously to an analysis of real world programs to bring reconciliation (e.g., Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda, Israelis and Palestinians, and African societies plagued by the HIV epidemic and the Western aid donors). In a concluding chapter Morton Deutsch shares his insights on intergroup reconciliation that have accumulated in close to six decades of work on conflict and its resolution.

Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation

From Violent Conflict to Peaceful Co-Existence

Edited by Arie Nadler, Thomas Malloy, and Jeffrey D. Fisher

Introduction: Intergroup Reconciliation- Dimensions and Themes Arie Nadler, Thomas E. Malloy and Jeffrey D. Fisher
Part A: Intergroup Reconciliation: Its Nature
1. Reconciliation From a Social Psychological
Perspective Herbert C. Kelman
Part B: Socio-Emotional Reconciliation: Moving Beyond Victimhood, Guilt and Humiliation
(1) Guilt, Victimhood and Forgiveness
2. Instrumental and Socio-Emotional Paths to Intergroup Reconciliation and the Need-Based Model of Socio-Emotional Reconciliation, Arie Nadler and Nurit Shnabel
3. Transforming Trauma in the Aftermath of Gross Human Rights Abuses: Making Public Spaces Intimate through the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
4. Social Categorizaation, Standards of Justice, and Collective Guilt, Anca M. Miron and Nyla R. Branscombe
5. Prospects for Intergroup Reconciliation: Social Psychological Predictors of Intergroup forgiveness and reparation in Northern Ireland and Chile, Masi Noor, Rubert Brown and Garry Prentice
(2) Restoring Respect and Esteem
6. How Needs Can Motivate Intergroup Reconciliation in the Face of Intergroup Conflict, Felicia Pratto and Demis E. Glasford
7. The Social Psychology of Respect: Implications for Delegitimization and Reconciliation, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman and Amelie Werther
8. From Egosystem to Ecosystem in Intergroup Interactions: Implications for Intergroup Reconciliation, Jennifer Crocker, Julie A. Garcia and Noah Nuer
Part Three: Instrumental Reconciliation: Contact, Common identity, and Equality
(3) Contact and Common Identity
9. Stepping Stones to Reconciliation in Northern Ireland: Intergroup Contact, Forgiveness and Trust, Miles Hewstone, Catehrine Pinder, Jared Kenworthy, Ed Cairns, Nicole Tausch, Joanne Hughes, Tania Tam, Alberto Voci and Ulrich von Hecker
10. Majority and Minority Perspectives in Intergroup Relations: The Role of Contact, Group Representations, Threat, and Trust in Intergoup Conflict and Reconciliation, John F. Dovidio, Samuel L. Gaertner, Melissa-Sue John, Samer Halabi, Tamar Saguy, Adam R. Pearson and Blake M. Riek
11. A Social Psychological Approach to Post-Conflict Reconciliation, Blake M. Riek, Samuel L. Gaertner, John F. Dovidio, Marilynn B. Brewer, Eric W. Mania, and Marika J. Lamoreaux
12. Reconciliation, Trust and Cooperation: Using Bottom-Up and Top-Down Strategies to Achieve Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Reuben M. Baron
(4) Equality and Differential Power
13. Diminishing Vertical Distance: Power and Social Status as Barriers to Inter-group Reconciliation, Lasana T. Harris and Susan T. Fiske
14. Social Identity, Legitimacy and Intergroup Conflict: The Rocky Road to Reconciliation, Russell Spears
15. Intergroup Relations and Reconciliation: Theoretical Analysis and Methodological Implications, Thomas E. Malloy
Part D: Programs to Promote Intergroup Reconciliation
16. The Road to Reconciliation, Walter G. Stephan
17. Promoting Reconciliation After Genocide and Mass Killing in Rwanda-and Other Post-Conflict Settings: Understanding the Roots of Violence, Healing, Shared History and General Principles, Ervin Staub
18. Between Conflict and Reconciliation: Toward a Theory of Peaceful Co-existence, Stephen Worchel and Dawna K. Coutant
19. Help as a Vehicle to Reconciliation, With Particular Reference to Help for Extreme Health Needs, Jeffrey D. Fisher, Arie Nadler, Jessica S. Little and Tamar Saguy
Part E: Intergroup Reconciliation: An Overall View
20. Reconciliation After Destructive Intergroup
Conflict Morton Deutsch

Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation

From Violent Conflict to Peaceful Co-Existence

Edited by Arie Nadler, Thomas Malloy, and Jeffrey D. Fisher

Reviews and Awards

"...a comprehensive, updated, social psychological text delving into the issue of reconciliation among groups in the wake of conflict. The book is very effectively edited into four parts...It is well written and easy to read; it is both thorough and broad in perspective, and it brings forth the findings and theory of some of the leading minds in this field. It covers conceptual and theoretical as well as empirical and applied aspects of the focal issue and offers a comprehensive picture of what is known and what's left to be found in the forseeable future."--PsycCritiques