Overview
- Provides a strong theoretical framework for understanding intergroup conflict
- Explores the role that self and group categorization play in conflict and peace
- Contains applications for social identity theory in conflict situations around the world
Part of the book series: Peace Psychology Book Series (PPBS)
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About this book
It is evident that any account of peace requires an intricate understanding of identity both as a cause and consequence of conflict, as well as a potential resource to be harnessed in the promotion and maintenance of peace. Understanding Peace and Conflict Through Social Identity Theory: Contemporary Global Perspectives aims to help achieve such an understanding and as such is a valuable resource to those studying peace and conflict, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, public policy makers, and all those interested in the ways in which social identity impacts our world.
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Keywords
- common ingroup identity model
- contemporary issues of identity
- development of social identity theory
- intergroup conflict
- self-categorization theory
- social identity theory
- self-esteem
- identity threat
- acculturation
- tyranny
- child soldiers
- Northern Ireland
- South African Peace Process
- psychology and Climate Change
- social identity and conflict
- social identity theory and health
- Henri Tajfel
Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Theoretical and Contemporary Issues
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Worldwide Perspectives
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Shelley McKeown Jones is lecturer in the psychology of education at the University of Bristol. She teaches social psychology and research methods on the MSc Psychology of Education programme. Her research focuses on how social psychological theories, such as intergroup contact theory and social identity theory, can be used to understand and improve intergroup relations. Shelley has published a number of journal articles and a book on identity, segregation and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland.
Reeshma Haji (PhD. York University) is an
assistant professor in psychology at Laurentian University. She teaches courses
in social psychology and research design and also supervises undergraduate and
graduate research. Her research focuses on intergroup relations of religious
groups and minority group identities in diverse societies. Dr. Haji has
published journal articles and book chapters that have applied social
psychological perspectives to religiousidentity and interfaith relations.
Neil Ferguson (D.Phil., Ulster, 1998) is Professor of Political Psychology at Liverpool Hope University. His research and writings deal with moral development and a number of topics located within political psychology. Professor Ferguson is currently the President of the MOSAIC - Moral and Social Action Interdisciplinary Colloquium and is a member of the Governing Council for the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Moral Education and the Journal of Social and Political Psychology and is a trustee of the Journal of Moral Education Trust.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Peace and Conflict Through Social Identity Theory
Book Subtitle: Contemporary Global Perspectives
Editors: Shelley McKeown, Reeshma Haji, Neil Ferguson
Series Title: Peace Psychology Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29869-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-29867-2Published: 29 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80673-0Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-29869-6Published: 17 June 2016
Series ISSN: 2197-5779
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5787
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 387
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology, Social Policy