Sociopsychological Foundations of Intractable Conflicts

By D. Bar-Tal. 2007

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The power of being heard: The benefits of ‘perspective-giving’ in the context of intergroup conflict (2012, background): “One impediment to the resolution of these conflicts is the 7 uncompromising psychological biases that affect members of both sides of a conflict 8 (Bar-Tal, 2007; Ehrlinger et al., 2005; Krueger and Funder, 2004; Lilienfeld et al., 2009; 9 Nadler and Shnabel, 2008).”
Why We Hate (2018, background): “Bar-Tal (2007) also suggested that hatred is a hostile feeling directed toward another person or group that consists of malice, repugnance, and willingness to harm and even annihilate the object of hatred.”
Emotions in Conflict: Correlates of Fear and Hope in the Israeli-Jewish Society (2008, neutral): “It is documented that victims of terror tend to exhibit hawkish views and object to peace negotiations (Bar-Tal, 2007a).”
Social-Psychological Interventions for Intergroup Reconciliation: An Emotion Regulation Perspective (2016, background): “Given that reconciliation occurs when groups resist their default negative emotions, which naturally perpetuate existing conflicts (Bar-Tal, 2007; Bar-Tal, Halperin, & Pliskin, 2015), in this article we argue that the process of reconciliation can be understood through the lens of emotion regulation”
The Central Role of Group-Based Hatred as an Emotional Antecedent of Political Intolerance: Evidence from Israel (2009, background): “Israel’s societal infrastructure is highly influenced by the protracted conflict with the Arab world in general and with the Palestinians in particular (Bar-Tal, 2007).”
Hope in the Middle East (2014, background): “They are widely perceived as existential and zero sum in nature (Bar-Tal, 2001; 2007; Kriesberg, 1993; 2007) and generate considerable negative intergroup emotions.”
Overcoming competitive victimhood and facilitating forgiveness through re-categorization into a common victim or perpetrator identity ☆ (2013, background): “Note that even though this intervention is also related to the outgroup's agency, we did not expect it to increase the sense of threat to the ingroup's agency due to the outgroup's strength because this threat is already available and chronically salient due to the conflict (Bar-Tal, 2007).”
Ethos of conflict: The concept and its measurement. (2012, background): “…these challenges, societies in intractable conflict develop a functional societal psychological infrastructure that consists of three elements: EOC (Bar-Tal, 1998a, 2007a, in press), collective memories (Cairns & Roe, 2003; Connerton, 1989; Halbwachs, 1992; Paez & Liu, 2011; Wertsch, 2002), and…”
The positive effect of negative emotions in protracted conflict: The case of anger (2011, background): “Anger is a central and prevalent emotion in the context of intergroup conflict (Bar-Tal, 2007; Halperin & Gross, in press).”
Socio–Psychological Barriers to Peace Making: The Case of the Israeli Jewish Society (2010, background): “The belief that the whole world is against us is well connected to the ideological beliefs supporting conflict (Bar-Tal, 2007b; Bar-Tal & Antebi, 1992).”
Narrative as a Root Metaphor for Political Psychology (2012, background): “…study linking psychological and political phenomena is concerned with the way in which stories serve to construct collective identity through the transmission of collective memory and the creation of myths that support that memory (e.g., Bar-Tal, 2007; David & Bar-Tal, 2009; Hammack, 2008).”
The Influence of the Ethos of Conflict on Israeli Jews' Interpretation of Jewish—Palestinian Encounters (2009, background): “…the intractable conflict with the Palestinians, the great majority of the Israeli Jews held the beliefs of the ethos, but with the coming of the Egyptian President Anwar Saadat to Jerusalem, the public began to change their views (see D. Bar-Tal 2007a and Oren 2005 for the analysis of the changes).”
Emotional Barriers to Peace: Emotions and Public Opinion of Jewish Israelis About the Peace Process in the Middle East (2011, background): “…that the unique framing of an event (Mintz & Geva, 1997; Sniderman & Theriault, 2004), in conjunction with the standing ideology about the conflict (Bar-Tal, 2007; Long & Brecke, 2003) and preexisting emotional sentiments about the opponent (Halperin & Gross, in press; Halperin et al., in press),…”
Narrative and the politics of meaning (2011, background): “…— commands a particular form of autobiographical understanding in which personal narratives converge upon key themes of insecurity, victimization, and outgroup delegitimization, among others, to provide acts of aggression with interpretive sensibility and motivational force (see Bar-Tal, 2007).”