Intergroup Forgiveness and Guilt in Northern Ireland: Social Psychological Dimensions of “The Troubles”

Hewstone, Miles; Cairns, Ed; Voci, Alberto; McLernon, Frances; Niens, Ulrike; Noor, Masi

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“…Guilt signals that an intergroup relationship is damaged and needs to be repaired (Branscombe et al 2002), and is often connected to prosocial consequences such as reduced racism (Branscombe et al 2007) and increased forgiveness (Hewstone et al 2004). More specifically, guilt increases the motivation to make amends or to apologize (Brown et al 2008;Imhoff et al 2013;Tangney 1995).…”

Section: Psychological Obstacles: Historical Defensiveness and Aversimentioning

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How to Teach about the Holocaust? Psychological Obstacles in Historical Education in Poland and Germany

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History Education and Conflict Transformation

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How to Teach about the Holocaust? Psychological Obstacles in Historical Education in Poland and Germany

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Witkowska

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“…Previous research has found a positive effect of contact on intergroup attitudes in Northern Ireland (c.f. Cairns, Kenworthy, Campbell, & Hewstone, 2006;Hewstone et al, 2004;McKeown, Cairns, Stringer, & Rae, 2012;Paolini, Hewstone, Cairns, & Voci, 2004) McKeown & Taylor 419Based on previous theoretical and empirical literature, therefore, it was hypothesised that: (1) high quality and high frequency contact would be associated with stronger support for peacebuilding, (2) support for peacebuilding will be associated with higher levels of civic engagement, including both volunteering and political participation, and (3) support for peacebuilding would mediate the relation between contact and civic engagement. …”

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Intergroup contact and peacebuilding: Promoting youth civic engagement in Northern Ireland

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Taylor

2017

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Focusing on the post-accord generation in Northern Ireland, this study aimed to examine the role of intergroup contact in promoting support for peacebuilding and youth civic engagement. The sample comprised 466 youth (aged 14-15; 51% Catholic, 49% Protestant) who were born after the 1998 Good Friday/Belfast Agreement and therefore represent a 'post-accord' generation. Recruited through their schools, youth completed scales on intergroup contact (quality and quantity), support for peacebuilding, and civic engagement. Hypotheses were tested using structural equation modelling and bootstrapped mediation in MPlus. Results found that support for peacebuilding partially mediated the association between higher quality and higher quantity contact and greater civic engagement (volunteering and political participation). Findings demonstrate that youth who are living with the legacy of protracted intergroup conflict can support peacebuilding and engage in constructive behaviours such as civic engagement. By recognising the peacebuilding potential of youth, especially in a post-accord generation, the findings may inform how to promote youth civic engagement and social reconstruction after conflict.Keywords: intergroup contact, youth, peacebuilding, civic engagement, volunteering, political participation, Northern Ireland, post-conflict setting Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2017, Vol. 5(2), 415-434, doi:10.5964/jspp.v5i2.769 Received: 2017-03-03. Accepted: 2017-09-14. Published (VoR): 2017-10-20.Handling Editor: Nurit Shnabel, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel *Corresponding author at: School of Education, University of Bristol, 35 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1JA, UK. E-mail: s.mckeownjones@bristol.ac.uk This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Intergroup conflict has devastating consequences on society; it affects individuals, groups and communities as well as wider social and national structures. Understanding how to support constructive outcomes following conflict is therefore of urgent importance, especially for the next generation. One way to do this is through promoting positive and meaningful interactions between groups (Allport, 1954). Indeed, there is substantive evidence that intergroup contact reduces prejudice (Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006) and growing evidence that contact promotes wider outcomes including civic engagement (Bowman, 2011;Gurin, Nagda, & Lopez, 2004). There is little research, however, which has examined the extent to which shared support towards peacebuilding that transcends intergroup boundaries mediates the relationship between contact and civic engagement. jspp.psychopen.eu | 2195-3325 Addressing this gap in the literature, the present study focuses on the extent to which the association between intergroup contact (quality and quantity)...

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“…Overall, one can observe that psychologists have defined intergroup forgiveness by way of highlighting its affective and motivational components. To illustrate, intergroup forgiveness has been conceptualized as the tendency to refrain from assigning guilt to a perpetrator group [10**], leave behind past grievances and let go of grudges [11], and to suppress the motivation to retaliate against a violent perpetrator group [12]. While these attempts have been useful to advance research, perhaps intergroup forgiveness would benefit from a more precise definition.…”

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Suffering need not beget suffering: why we forgive

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2016

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Intergroup Forgiveness and Guilt in Northern Ireland: Social Psychological Dimensions of “The Troubles”

Cited by 109 publications

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How to Teach about the Holocaust? Psychological Obstacles in Historical Education in Poland and Germany

How to Teach about the Holocaust? Psychological Obstacles in Historical Education in Poland and Germany

Intergroup contact and peacebuilding: Promoting youth civic engagement in Northern Ireland

Suffering need not beget suffering: why we forgive

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