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Addressing intergroup conflict from the bottom-up?

  • How might interventions that engage ordinary citizens in settings of violent conflict affect broader conflict dynamics? Given the volume of resources committed every year to citizen-oriented programs that attempt to promote peace, this is an important question. We develop a framework to analyze processes through which individual-level interventions could mitigate violent conflict escalation more broadly. Individual-level interventions may increase positive feelings toward the outgroup, as well as psychological, social, and material resources among participants. These have the potential to influence behaviors such as policing of the ingroup, public advocacy, and political action that can contribute to peace. Yet, the effectiveness of interventions to influence the conflict is moderated by contextual factors like groups’ access to material resources, their positions in society, and political institutions. We use this analytical framework to assess evidence from recent intervention studies. We find that the current evidence base is quite small, does not cover the diversity of relevant contexts, and gives too little attention to resources and capacities that enable people to engage in conflict mitigation behaviors. Researchers and policy makers should go beyond thinking only about improving attitudes to thinking about behavior, resources, and capacities for such behaviors, and contextual conditions that constrain behavior.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Ruth K. Ditlmann, Cyrus Samii, Thomas Zeitzoff
Parent Title (English):Social Issues and Policy Review
Publication year:2017
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:38
Last Page:77
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/sipr.12027
Release Date:2021/06/07
Volume:11
Issue:1
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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