Restoring Civil Societies

Notes on Contributors ix Series Editor's Preface xix 1 Introduction 1 Kai J. Jonas and Thomas A. Morton Part I Theoretical Approaches 17 2 Justice Sensitivity as Resource or Risk Factor in Civic Engagement 19 Anna Baumert, Nadine Thomas, and Manfred Schmitt 3 Regulating Psychological Threat: The Motivational Consequences of Threatening Contexts 38 Bastiaan T. Rutjens, Joop van der Pligt, and Frenk van Harreveld 4 Prosocial Behavior in the Context of Crisis 57 Kai J. Jonas 5 A Social Ecological Perspective on Risk and Resilience for Children and Political Violence: Implications for Restoring Civil Societies 78 E. Mark Cummings, Laura K. Taylor, and Christine E. Merrilees 6 Everyday Helping and Responses to Crises: A Model for Understanding Volunteerism 98 Allen M. Omoto, Mark Snyder, and Justin D. Hackett 7 Collective Action as Civic Engagement: Toward an Encompassing Psychological Perspective 119 Martijn van Zomeren, Tom Postmes, and Russell Spears 8 Intergroup Relations in Post-Conflict Contexts: How the Past Influences the Present (and Future) 135 John F. Dovidio, Samuel L. Gaertner, Ruth K. Ditlmann, and Tessa V. West 9 Humanizing Others Without Normalizing Harm: The Role of Human Concepts and Categories in Intergroup Reconciliation and Forgiveness 156 Thomas A. Morton, Matthew J. Hornsey, and Tom Postmes Part II Application and Intervention 175 10 Social Rituals and Collective Expression of Emotion After a Collective Trauma: Participation in Gacaca and Assimilation of the Rwandan Genocide 177 Bernard Rimé, Patrick Kanyangara, Dario Paez, and Vincent Yzerbyt 11 Competitive Victimhood Among Jewish and Palestinian Israelis Reflects Differential Threats to Their Identities: The Perspective of the Needs-Based Model 192 Nurit Shnabel and Masi Noor 12 Identity, Conflict, and the Experience of Trauma: The Social Psychology of Intervention and Engagement Following Political Violence 208 Orla T. Muldoon and Robert D. Lowe 13 Divided by a Common Language? Conceptualizing Identity, Discrimination, and Alienation 222 Leda M. Blackwood, Nick Hopkins, and Stephen D. Reicher 14 Civil Society Responses to the HIV/AIDS Crisis: The Role of Social Representations in Shaping Collective and Individual Action 237 Stefan StEURurmer and Birte Siem 15 Opinion-Based Groups and the Restoration of Civil Society 250 Craig McGarty, Girish Lala, and Emma Thomas 16 Moral Courage Training Programs as a Means of Overcoming Societal Crises 265 Veronika BrandstEURatter and Kai J. Jonas 17 Media as an Instrument for Reconstructing Communities Following Conflict 284 Elizabeth Levy Paluck Index 299