Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict, And Terrorism - Brossura

Staub, Ervin

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ISBN 10: 0199775249 ISBN 13: 9780199775248

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, Usa, 2013

Riassunto

Winner of the 2013 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award.

Winner of the International Society of Political Psychology Alexander George Book Award.

Overcoming Evil identifies the root causes of genocide, violent conflict, and terrorism, informed by Ervin Staub's 30 years in the field. An understanding of these root causes is essential for mapping ways to move beyond violence. In this landmark volume, Staub lays out principles and practices to prevent violence, halt ongoing violence, and promote reconciliation to prevent the recurrence of violence. In analyzing violence, Staub considers difficult conditions of life, conflict, repression, culture, the institutions of society, individual and group psychology, the evolution of violence, and the behavior of witnesses or bystanders within and outside societies. To move beyond violence, it is necessary to humanize the other, to heal from past victimization, and develop cultures and institutions that help curb violence. The book considers how all this can be accomplished, and how caring values and moral courage for action can develop.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Ervin Staub has taught at Harvard and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has studied the influences that lead caring, helping, altruism in adults and children, the origins of genocide and other mass violence, the prevention of violence between groups and reconciliation after violence. He published extensively on these topics. He has also worked in many real world settings, on projects ranging from reconciliation and the prevention of new violence in Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo, to reducing the use of unnecessary force by police, to creating caring classrooms.

Contenuti:

• CONTENTS
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction. I. Origins, Prevention, Reconciliation
• Chapter 2. Introduction. II. Early and Late Prevention, The Costs of Violence, Evil and Goodness
• Part I: The Origins of Mass Violence
• Chapter 3. The Sources of Conflict Between Groups and Primary Examples
• Chapter 4. Instigating Conditions: Starting Points of Mass Violence
• Chapter 5. Psychological and Societal/Group Processes that Arise from Instigating Conditions
• Chapter 6. Learning by Doing in Individuals and Groups: The Evolution of Extreme Violence
• Chapter 7. Internal and External Bystanders: Their Passivity, Complicity, and Role in the Evolution of Violence
• Chapter 8. Cultural/Societal Characteristics that Make Hostility and Violence More Likely
• Chapter 9. Perpetration and the Perpetrators
• Chapter 10. Understanding the Woundedness/Psychological Transformation of All Parties in Mass Violence.
• Part II. Prevention and Reconciliation
• Chapter 11. Introduction and late prevention.
• Chapter 12. Promoting Understanding, Healing and Reconciliation in Rwanda
• Chapter 13. Constructive Responses to Difficult Life Conditions and Conflict, Preventive Diplomacy and Dialogue
• Chapter 14. Developing Positive Orientation to the "Other": Humanizing and Contact with the Other.
• Chapter 15. Beyond "us" and "them": Constructive Ideologies and Groups, Common Identities, Inclusive Caring, and Pluralism
• Chapter 16. Changing Hearts and Minds: Information, Peace Education, and Public Education in Rwanda and the Congo
• Chapter 17. The Potential and Power of Active Bystanders: Citizens, Leaders, Nations, the International System.
• Chapter 18. Generating Action by Leaders, Citizens, Creating Structures for Prevention.
• Chapter 19. Healing/Psychological Recovery and Reconciliation
• Chapter 20. Other Elements of Reconciliation: Complex Truth, Collective Memory, Shared History and Justice
• Chapter 21. Forgiveness, Healing and Reconciliation
• Chapter 22. Raising Inclusively Caring, Morally Courageous Children and Altruism Born of Suffering
• Chapter 23. Recommendations and Conclusions

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, Usa
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199775249
• ISBN 13: 9780199775248
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 600