Restoring Civil Societies
The Psychology of Intervention and Engagement Following Crisis
Published on 8. August 2012
328 pages
978-1-118-34765-2 (ISBN)
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Breakdowns in civil societies can be catalyzed by factors ranging from war and genocide to natural disaster, disease and economic downturns. Restoring Civil Societies examines social processes related to civic engagement in the wake of these societal ruptures. The authors show how crises in civil society can be both pervasive and localized, broad-based and limited to defined social sub-groups. Whatever their scale, Restoring Civil Societies identifies models that analyze the social psychology of crises in order to devise ways of re-activating civic engagement and safeguarding civil society.
Focusing on these positive interventions, the authors identify a number of key strategies, ranging from the simplicity and directness of bystander interventions to the volunteer armies mobilized in the wake of natural disasters. They include collective action organized to redress systemic inequalities, and the vital healing role played by truth commissions in Rwanda and elsewhere. Restoring Civil Societies fills the gap between basic research on social issues and translation into social policies and programs-an area which, in light of current economic and social unrest, is more important now than ever.
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Thomas A. Morton is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology atthe University of Exeter, UK. His research focuses on how peopleexperience and express their social identities, and the strategicconsiderations and reality constraints that govern these processes.His work on this theme has covered such topics as conflict andforgiveness, intragroup processes, deviance and change, prejudice,and stereotyping. He is currently Associate Editor for the BritishJournal of Social Psychology.
Kai J. Jonas is Assistant Professor of Psychology at theUniversity of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He studied socialsciences and mathematics at the University of Gottingen, Germany.Since 2008 he has been tenured assistant professor at theUniversity of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, publishing ininternational journals such as Journal of Personality and SocialPsychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. He hasalso developed, implemented and documented applied interventionprograms.
Content
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 CivicEngagement 19
Anna Baumert, Nadine Thomas, and Manfred Schmitt
3 Regulating Psychological Threat: The Motivational Consequencesof Threatening Contexts 38
Bastiaan T. Rutjens, Joop van der Pligt, and Frenk vanHarreveld
4 Prosocial Behavior in the Context of Crisis 57
Kai J. Jonas
5 A Social Ecological Perspective on Risk and Resilience forChildren and Political Violence: Implications for Restoring CivilSocieties 78
E. Mark Cummings, Laura K. Taylor, and Christine E.Merrilees
6 Everyday Helping and Responses to Crises: A Model forUnderstanding Volunteerism 98
Allen M. Omoto, Mark Snyder, and Justin D. Hackett
7 Collective Action as Civic Engagement: Toward an EncompassingPsychological Perspective 119
Martijn van Zomeren, Tom Postmes, and Russell Spears
8 Intergroup Relations in Post-Conflict Contexts: How the PastInfluences the Present (and Future) 135
John F. Dovidio, Samuel L. Gaertner, Ruth K. Ditlmann, and TessaV. West
9 Humanizing Others Without Normalizing Harm: The Role of HumanConcepts and Categories in Intergroup Reconciliation andForgiveness 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 aCollective Trauma: Participation in Gacaca and Assimilation of theRwandan Genocide 177
Bernard Rimé, Patrick Kanyangara, Dario Paez, and VincentYzerbyt
11 Competitive Victimhood Among Jewish and Palestinian IsraelisReflects Differential Threats to Their Identities: The Perspectiveof the Needs-Based Model 192
Nurit Shnabel and Masi Noor
12 Identity, Conflict, and the Experience of Trauma: The SocialPsychology of Intervention and Engagement Following PoliticalViolence 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 ofSocial Representations in Shaping Collective and Individual Action237
Stefan StEURurmer and Birte Siem
15 Opinion-Based Groups and the Restoration of Civil Society250
Craig McGarty, Girish Lala, and Emma Thomas
16 Moral Courage Training Programs as a Means of OvercomingSocietal Crises 265
Veronika BrandstEURatter and Kai J. Jonas
17 Media as an Instrument for Reconstructing CommunitiesFollowing Conflict 284
Elizabeth Levy Paluck
Index 299
