For the most part, groups and nations have blamed competition for scarce and coveted resources as an important source of conflict, claiming that resolution depends on mutual agreement concerning how to divide these resources. This book focuses on the removal of psychological barriers (e.g. a lack of trust, feelings of victimisation, perceived lack of power) as a way to end conflict. Social psychology is uniquely equipped, both theoretically and methodologically, to deal with this challenge.

• Introduction: Intergroup Reconciliation - Dimensions and Themes


• Part A: Intergroup Reconciliation: Its Nature


• 1: Herbert C. Kelman: Reconciliation From a Social Psychological Perspective


• Part B: Socio-Emotional Reconciliation: Moving Beyond Victimhood, Guilt, and Humiliation


• (1) Guilt, Victimhood, and Forgiveness


• 2: Arie Nadler and Nurit Shnabel: Instrumental and Socio-Emotional Paths to Intergroup Reconciliation and the Need-Based Model of Socio-Emotional Reconciliation


• 3: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela: Transforming Trauma in the Aftermath of Gross Human Rights Abuses: Making Public Spaces Intimate through the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission


• 4: Anca M. Miron and Nyla R. Branscombe: Social Categorization, Standards of Justice, and Collective Guilt


• 5: Masi Noor, Rubert Brown, and Garry Prentice: Prospects for Intergroup Reconciliation: Social Psychological Predictors of Intergroup Forgiveness and Reparation in Northern Ireland and Chile


• (2) Restoring Respect and Esteem


• 6: Felicia Pratto and Demis E. Glasford: How Needs Can Motivate Intergroup Reconciliation in the Face of Intergroup Conflict


• 7: Ronnie Janoff-Bulman and Amelie Werther: The Social Psychology of Respect: Implications for Delegitimization and Reconciliation


• 8: Jennifer Crocker, Julie A. Garcia and Noah Nuer: From Egosystem to Ecosystem in Intergroup Interactions: Implications for Intergroup Reconciliation


• Part C: Instrumental Reconciliation: Contact, Common Identity, and Equality


• 9: Miles Hewstone, Catherine Pinder, Jared Kenworthy, Ed Cairns, Nicole Tausch, Joanne Hughes, Tania Tam, Alberto Voci and Ulrich von Hecker: Stepping Stones to Reconciliation in Northern Ireland: Intergroup Contact, Forgiveness and Trust


• 10: John F. Dovidio, Samuel L. Gaertner, Melissa-Sue John, Samer Halabi, Tamar Saguy, Adam R. Pearson and Blake M. Riek: Majority and Minority Perspectives in Intergroup Relations: The Role of Contact, Group Representations, Threat, and Trust in Intergroup Conflict and Reconciliation


• 11: Blake M. Riek, Samuel L. Gaertner, John F. Dovidio, Marilynn B. Brewer, Eric W. Mania, and Marika J. Lamoreaux: A Social Psychological Approach to Post-Conflict Reconciliation


• 12: Reuben M. Baron: Reconciliation, Trust and Cooperation: Using Bottom-Up and Top-Down Strategies to Achieve Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict


• (4) Equality and Differential Power


• 13: Lasana T. Harris and Susan T. Fiske: Diminishing Vertical Distance: Power and Social Status as Barriers to Inter-group Reconciliation


• 14: Russell Spears: Social Identity, Legitimacy and Intergroup Conflict: The Rocky Road to Reconciliation


• 15: Thomas E. Malloy: Intergroup Relations and Reconciliation: Theoretical Analysis and Methodological Implications


• Part D: Programs to Promote Intergroup Reconciliation


• 16: Walter G. Stephan: The road to reconciliation


• 17: Ervin Staub: Promoting Reconciliation After Genocide and Mass Killing in Rwanda - and Other Post-Conflict Settings: Understanding the Roots of Violence, Healing, Shared History, and General Principles


• 18: Stephen Worchel and Dawna K. Coutant: Between Conflict and Reconciliation: Toward a Theory of Peaceful Co-existance


• 19: Jeffrey D. Fisher, Arie Nadler, Jessica S. Little and Tamar Saguy: Help as a Vehicle to Reconciliation, With Particular Reference to Help for Extreme Health Needs


• Part E: Intergroup Reconciliation: An Overall View


• 20: Morton Deutsch: Reconciliation After Destructive Intergroup Conflict