Panel Discussion: Preventing Violent Intergroup Conflict
The panel will include presentations by:
Dr. Barbara Harff, "Explaining and Preventing Genocide and Political Mass Murder,"
Dr. Albert Bandura, Stanford University "Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration of Inhumanities,"
Dr. Tom Pettigrew, University of California at Santa Cruz "Are Population Ratios & Prejudice Relevant for Understanding Genocide?"
Dr. Roy Baumeister, Florida State University "Causes of Evil: Implications for Reducing Intergroup Violence"
Dr. Ervin Staub, University of Massachusetts "Prevention and reconciliation: evolution of violence, bystander actions, humanizing the other, healing, justice and shared history"
Discussion to follow. This is a free event, convened in honor of the program's founding director, Ervin Staub.
Presented by the Psychology of Peace and Prevention of Violence doctoral program at Umass Amherst.