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The Psychological Experience of
Prejudice, Injustice, and Conflict 

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The Roles of Threat and Emotion in Feeding Conflict

The Psychological Experience of Prejudice, Injustice, and Conflict


Political Ideology and Identity in Ethnic Conflict and Resolution

The Reduction of Prejudice and Conflict

Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Reconciliation

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Interdisciplinary Seminar on Conflict and Violence

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Faculty member Linda Tropp has examined how exposure to prejudice and discrimination influence the intergroup attitudes of members of racial and ethnic minority groups.  Recent findings from experimental studies and nationally representative surveys reveals that perceptions of racial prejudice and discrimination diminish how members of racial minority groups feel toward the racial majority, along with curbing the potentially positive effects of contact between their groups.

Native Indian Protest

American Indians have protested the Columbus Day parade, claiming that Columbus was the catalyst for years of genocide. In 2007 during the 100 year celebration of one of the oldest Columbus Day Parades (Denver, Colorado) tensions were high between the American Indians and the Italians. 83 protesters were arrested for blocking the parade.
Permission: Ajschroetlin, flickr.com/photos/ajschroetlin/1524283290

March

Demonstrators carrying banner reading "Solidarnosc" ("Solidarity") the name of the first Polish trade union and the logo of the Solidarity Democracy Movement. .Permission: Jazzebbess, flickr.com/photos/22919544@N06/3843727670/

Johanna Vollhardt has studied how the experience of violence affects people’s willingness to engage in, or oppose, future violence.  For example, in a recent study she interviewed Polish Jews who survived a 1968 purge to see how their experience affected their involvement in subsequent political movements (e.g., the Solidarity democracy movement).

 

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