Overcoming Evil

Genocide, Violent Conflict, and Terrorism
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-977524-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 600 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1005 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars, students, researchers, and those working in the fields of genocide, violent conflict, and terrorism, as well as in intergroup relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Staub, Ervin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.