Dunant's Dream: War, Switzerland, and the History of the Red Cross

Moorehead, Caroline

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“…Being raised or educated in diversity and having intergroup friends are common memories of people who saved the lives of others during WW2 or/and were meritorious for contributions to human rights. We find these recollections in the lives of Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term "genocide" and fought for many years to make it an international crime (McFarland and Hamer, 2016), Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara (later known as Sempo Sugiwara), who saved around 10,000 Jews by giving them Japanese visas during WW2 to escape to safety (Levine, 2019), Irena Sendler, Polish Righteous Among the Nations, who was a mastermind behind the action to rescue several hundreds of Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during WW2 (Mieszkowska, 2018), and Jean Henry Dunant, who led in creating the First Geneva Convention, on treating war wounded, requiring that both the enemy's and one's own wounded to be treated, and the International Red Cross to provide this treatment (Moorehead, 1999).…”

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The role of early intergroup experiences for identification with all humanity in adulthood

Hamer

McFarland²

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Identification with all humanity (IWAH), defined as a bond with and concern for people all over the world, predicts concern for global problems, commitment to human rights, and prosocial activities. However, it is still unknown how such a broad social identification develops and if early experiences play any role. Two studies explored the role of diverse childhood and adolescence intergroup experiences in predicting IWAH in adulthood. We focused on experiences such as being raised in diversity and having intergroup friends, helping or being helped by various others, and having experiences leading to re- or de-categorization, and introduced a new Childhood/Adolescent Intergroup Experiences (CAIE) scale. Study 1 (N = 313 U.S. students, Mage = 21) and Study 2 (N = 1,000, a representative Polish sample, Mage = 47) found that this kind of intergroup experiences during childhood and adolescence predicted IWAH beyond the effects of its other known predictors, such as empathy, openness to experience, universalism, right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation or ethnocentrism. These results, obtained on various samples and in countries with different ethno-cultural contexts, point to potential ways of enlarging IWAH during childhood and adolescence.

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Section: Experiences Of People Meritorious For Human Rights or Saving...mentioning

confidence: 99%