Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation

This text focuses on the removal of psychological barriers (e.g. a lack of trust, feelings of victimisation, perceived lack of power) as a way to end conflict. The book takes the stance that social psychology is uniquely equipped, both theoretically and methodologically, to deal with this challenge.

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