Transitioning to Peace - Promoting Global Social Justice and Non-violence
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This book will be of particular interest to those working for peace on the frontlines, as well as global policymakers aiming to learn from other cases. Academics in the fields of psychology, sociology, education, peace studies, communication, community development, youth studies, and behavioral economics may be particularly interested in this volume.
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SECTION 1. Transitional justice processes in path toward peace
Chapter 2. Recognition, reparation, justice, and memory: Chile 1990-2020 by Elizabeth Lira
Chapter 3. Truth commissions: Individual and societal effects by Anderson Mathias, Dario Paez, Bernard Rime, & Agustin Espinoza
Chapter 4. Citizens’ views on amnesties, truth commissions, and intergroup forgiveness by Félix Neto, Lonzozou Kpanake, Claudia Pineda Marín, & Etienne Mullet
Chapter 5. Forgiveness and reconciliation in post-conflict settings by Etienne Mullet, Wilson López López, & Claudia Pineda Marín
Chapter 6. Collective memory in the Basque country: The interplay between construals of victimhood and perpetratorship by Magdalena Bobowik, Maitane Arnoso-Martínez, Mirjana Rupar, & Ainara Arnoso-Martínez
SECTION 2. Social movements and collective action promoting constructive transitions
Chapter 7. The energizing role of contact and common ingroup identity on collective action among non-indigenous groups in Mexico and Chile by David Sirlopú, Huseyin Çakal, Halime Unver, Natalia Salas, & Anja Eller
Chapter 8. The Chilean transition: Achievements, shortcomings, and consequences for the current democracy by Claudia Zúñiga, Winnifred Louis, Rodrigo Asún, & Carlos Ascencio
Chapter 9. “Chanting at 1pm revolution time”: Collective action as communal coping in the Sudan revolution by Ubai Kamal Elgizouli, Ayman Hussain, & Sigrun Marie Moss
Chapter 10. Government discourse in the context of the transition to peace in Colombia by Idaly Barreto
SECTION 3. Community efforts for peace
Chapter 11. The role of local associations of survivors and ex-detainees in the process of reconciliation in Rwanda: The case of Amataba y'Abunzubumwe by Immaculée Mukashema
Chapter 12. Psychosocial accompaniment of collective nonviolent resistance in an informal settlement by Luis Manuel Silva, Daniel J. Christie, Verónica Pardo-Argáez, & Wilson López López
Chapter 13. Psychosocial accompaniment and everyday peace in Colombia by Claudia Tovar & Verónica Pardo
SECTION 4. Peace education and future-proofing peace transitions
Chapter 14. Supporting peace by broadening “youth” and attending to their diverse development in transitional societies by Gabriel Velez, Michelle J. Bellino, & Scott Moeschberger
Chapter 15. Document-based historical role-playing as a tool to promote empathy and structural understanding in historical memory education by Javier Corredor, Carolina Castro, & Tiffany Jimenez
Chapter 16. Helping Kids! Cross-cultural research on children’s prosocial behavior in societies transitioning to peace by Celia Bähr, Jocelyn B. Dautel, Edona Maloku, Irene Razpurker-Apfeld, Lipaz Shamoa-Nir, Jasmina Tomašić Humer, Ana Tomovska Misoska, & Laura K. Taylor
Chapter 17. Promoting social cohesion and peacebuilding through investment in early childhood development programs by Laura Dunne, Aoibheann Brennan-Wilson, Nicole Craig, Sarah Miller, Paul Connolly, James Leckman, Larry Aber, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Siobhan Fitzpatrick, Phuong Pham, Patrick Vinck, & Pauline Walmsley
In-depth analyses of peace processes, transitional justice mechanisms, social movements, community-led initiatives, and educational programs focused on rebuilding after violence and consolidating peace
Multi-level consideration of how the transition to peace can be instigated, carried out, accelerated, and sustained by national governments, international agencies, social groups and communities, as well as individual actors
Mixed methods analyses including qualitative interviews, surveys, experimental designs, in-depth case studies, and historical data
Laura K. Taylor (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor at University College Dublin and Reader at Queen’s University Belfast and leads the Helping Kids! lab. Her research on the impact of political violence on young people and their communities has led to the Developmental Peacebuilding Model. She has published a book and over 60 journal articles in top psychology, as well as interdisciplinary peace and research methods journals, mostly focused on conflict-affected and LMICs countries. Taylor is the Editor of the APA journal, Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, and serves on the Governing Council of the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP), British Psychological Society (BPS) Social Psychology Committee, International Network of Peace Psychology (INPP), and represents the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) to the International Consortium of Developmental Science Societies (ICDSS). In 2018, Taylor was awarded the Ed Cairns Early Career Award from APA’s Division 48 on Peace Psychology.