Identity, Morality, and Threat

Studies in Violent Conflict

Contributions by David G. Alpher, Sandra I. Cheldelin, Rom Harre Philosophy Centre, United, S Ayse Kadayifici-Orellana, Joseph V. Montville director, The Preventive, Marc H. Ross, Dennis J.D. Sandole, Peter N. Stearns, Lena Tan, Edward A. Tiryakian Duke University Edited by Daniel Rothbart, Karina V. Korostelina George Mason University

Publication date:

26 October 2006

Length of book:

420 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

231x162mm
6x9"

Identity, Morality, and Threat offers a critical examination of the social psychological processes that generate outgroup devaluation and ingroup glorification as the source of conflict. Dr. Daniel Rothbart and Dr. Karina Korostelina bring together essays analyzing the causal relationship between escalating violence and opposing images of the Self and Other. The essays confront the practice of demonizing the Other as a justification for violent conflict and the conditions that enable these distorted images to shape future decisions. The authors provide insight into the possibilities for transforming threat-narratives into collaboration-narratives, and for changing past opposition into mutual understanding. Identity, Morality, and Threat is a strong contribution to the study of identity-based conflict and psychological defenses.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Identity, Morality, and Threat
Chapter 2 The Texture of Threat
Chapter 3 Identity Under Siege: Injustice, Historical Grievance, Rage, and the 'New' Terrorism
Chapter 3 Moral Denigration of the Other
Chapter 5 Identity Salience as a Determinant of the Perceptions of the Others
Chapter 6 Humanitarianism and Intolerence: Two Contemporary Approaches to the Other
Chapter 7 From Incorporation to Disengagement: East Timor And Indonesian Identities, 1975-1999
Chapter 7 Cultural Differences of Perception of the Other
Chapter 9 Islamic Tradition of Nonviolence: A Hermeneutical Approach
Chapter 10 "Good Violence" and the Myth of the Eternal Soldier
Chapter 11 Gender and Violence: Redefining the Moral Ground
Chapter 12 Psychocultural Interpretations and Dramas: Identity Dynamics in Ethnic Conflict
Chapter 13 Coping with Collective Stigma: The Case of Germany
Chapter 14 Reconciliation as Realpolitik : Facing the Brudens of History in Political Conflict Resolution