Dr. Özden Melis Uluğ, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Psychology of Peace a Violence Program, received a new grant from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology(SPSP). This new research project of Dr. Uluğ explores how conflict narratives may be helpful in achieving peace and justice in conflict contexts. Dr. Uluğ plans to conduct two studies in two different conflict contexts: (1) Israel and (2) Poland. In both studies, adaptation of materials to the Israeli and Polish context as well as translations will be facilitated by Dr. Gilad Hirschberger and Dr. Michał Bilewicz as collaborators.

Dr. David Reinhard, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Psychology of Peace a Violence Program working on a project awarded by the National Science Foundation program faculty member Dr. Bernhard Leidner, received a new grant from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Office of Equity and Inclusion. This new research project of Dr. Reinhard, entitled “Bridging the Great Divide,” was awarded as part of the Campus Climate Improvement grant program. The project aims to foster effective communication strategies "across the political aisle" on campus.

Linda Tropp was invited to give a talk on intergroup contact, racial anxiety, and navigating race in diverse  classrooms in the context of K-12 education to the staff, advisory board, and teaching award winners of Teaching Tolerance, as well as to leading staff at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Ervin Staub's training was described in an article entitled "NOPD trains other departments on peer-intervention program for cops" in the New Orleans Advocate on April 22, 2018.

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