Post-Conflict Reconciliation

Ethology, Philosophy and Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation

Arie Nadler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-2169-8 (ISBN)

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In this perceptive book, Arie Nadler examines the historical development and varying definitions of reconciliation, drawing on social psychological research to elucidate its underlying processes. Nadler explores post-conflict reconciliation through a variety of lenses, assessing conciliatory behaviors among animals, philosophical approaches, and instrumental versus socio-emotional processes of reconciliation.

Analyzing Hegel, Arendt and Amery’s understanding of reconciliation and considering the role of victimhood in intergroup reconciliation, Nadler grapples with the threat of reignited conflict post resolution. He addresses social psychological research on promoting trusting relations between former adversaries and ameliorating conflict-related threats to their identities. Chapters consider how former enemies may cooperate to build trust, and the effects of truth commissions and public apologies on conciliatory tendencies. The book sheds light on real-world efforts to build trust and stable reconciled intergroup relations between former enemies. The book highlights remaining dilemmas in the study of post-conflict reconciliation.

This book is an essential resource for scholars and students of social psychology, political science, and sociology. It is also a beneficial read for professionals promoting ceasefires, and practitioners in governmental services and NGOs working towards an end to international and intra-societal unrest.

Arie Nadler, Professor Emeritus, School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Contents
Preface vii
Introduction: Plan of book and social psychology of intergroup
relations ix
PART I DEFINITIONS, ANIMAL RESEARCH, AND
PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACHES
Introduction to Part I
1 What is this thing called reconciliation: Definitions of
reconciliation as an outcome and as a process 4
2 Post-conflict reconciliation in the animal world 24
3 Philosophical approaches to reconciliation: Hegel, Arendt,
and Améry 34
PART II SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES:
INSTRUMENTAL AND SOCIO-EMOTIONAL POST-
CONFLICT RECONCILIATION
Introduction to Part II
4 Instrumental reconciliation: Restoring positive relations
through intergroup contact 50
5 Socio-emotional reconciliation: The need-based approach 67
6 Collective victimhood and reconciliation 90
PART III INTERGROUP RECONCILIATION IN THE REAL
WORLD AND CONCLUDING CHAPTER
Introduction to Part III
7 Instrumental reconciliation: Building trustworthy relations 111
8 Socio-emotional reconciliation: Truth commissions and
public apologies 121
9 Conclusions and remaining issues 141
Epilogue 151
References 154

Erscheinungsdatum	13.11.2025
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-0353-2169-6 / 1035321696
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-2169-8 / 9781035321698
Zustand	Neuware