Mapping Peaces: Rule Development Experimentation and Ethos of Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine

What motivates bridge building across pernicious group divides? The effects of regulatory motives, framing, and fit on increasing constructive engagement across political and racial divisions

“…In support of Hypothesis 1, stronger prevention and promotion motivational orientations were both found to be generally associated with a greater willingness to engage in political bridge-building activities. These findings were largely consistent with prior research on motivation and peacebuilding in the Middle East (Coleman et al, 2012) and on regulatory focus theory (Higgins, 1997(Higgins, , 1998.…”

“…In 2011, a group of researchers set off to investigate the basic underlying motives that drive citizens to engage in peacebuilding efforts in the context of one of the most divided societies on the planet, Israel and Palestine (Coleman et al, 2012). In an attempt to circumvent the often-engrained automatic programming and self-report biases common in such settings of protracted conflict (Bar-Tal et al, 2012), the researchers eschewed traditional survey methods and instead employed rule development experimentation and conjoint analysis, methods developed in consumer market research for identifying resonant, unarticulated, implicit motives for behavior (Moskowitz and Gofman, 2007;Gofman and Moskowitz, 2012).…”

“…A series of three paired studies were conducted simultaneously in both Israel and Palestine over a 2-year period, which revealed two distinct motives driving engagement with peacebuilding (Coleman et al, 2012). responsibility for violent atrocities committed.…”

“…Using items obtained through our prior research investigating motives for peacebuilding in Israel and Palestine (Coleman et al, 2012), Study 1 was conducted as an initial test of the extent to which the promotion vs. prevention items identified in our prior research and adapted for this study were applicable in the U.S. context. A second aim was to ascertain whether there were significant correlations between both promotion and prevention motivational orientations and engagement in political bridgebuilding activities (stronger motives = higher willingness to engage with BBAs; Hypothesis 1).…”