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genocide, violent conflict, and terrorism
1 online resource (xii, 581 pages) : illustrations
'Overcoming Evil' describes the origins or influences leading to genocide, violent conflict and terrorism. It identifies principles and practices of prevention, and of reconciliation between groups after violence, or before violence thereby to prevent violence.
Origins, prevention, reconciliation -- Early and late prevention, the costs of violence, evil and goodness -- pt. I. The origins of mass violence. The sources of conflict between groups and primary examples ; Instigating conditions : starting points of mass violence ; Psychological and societal/group processes that arise from instigating conditions ; Learning by doing in individuals and groups : the evolution of extreme violence ; Internal and external bystanders : their passivity, complicity, and role in the evolution of violence ; Cultural/societal characteristics that make hostility and violence more likely ; Perpetration and the perpetrators ; Understanding the woundedness/psychological transformation of all parties in mass violence -- pt. II. Prevention and reconciliation. Introduction and late prevention ; Promoting understanding, healing, and reconciliation in Rwanda ; Constructive responses to difficult life conditions and conflict, preventive diplomacy, and dialogue ; Developing positive orientation to the "other" : humanizing and contact with the other ; Beyond "us" and "them" : constructive ideologies and groups, common identities, inclusive caring, and pluralism ; Changing hearts and minds : information, peace education, deradlicalization, and public education in Rwanda and the Congo ; The potential and power of active bystanders : citizens, leaders, nations, and the international system ; Generating constructive action by leaders and citizens, creating structures for prevention ; Healing/psychological recovery and reconciliation ; Other elements of reconciliation : complex truth, collective memory, shared history, and justice ; Forgiveness, healing, and reconciliation ; Raising inclusively caring, morally courageous children and altruism born of suffering ; Recommendations and conclusions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Overcoming evil : genocide, violent conflict, and terrorism
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011