structural conditions psychological and social Ervin Staub devaluation of the group humanizing a devalued group
In the build-up to genocide, what have other authors focused on? What processes are thought to create an evolution toward genocide? Who revealed the starting points of this evolution to be economic deterioration and political confusion? A history of what is just one factor that contributes to the probability of violence developing into genocide? What is one preventive effort in circumventing conditions that lead to genocide?
Other authors have focused on the structural conditions leading up to genocide and the psychological and social processes that create an evolution toward genocide. Ervin Staub showed that economic deterioration and political confusion and disorganization were starting points of increasing discrimination and violence in many instances of genocides and mass killing. They lead to scapegoating a group and ideologies that identified that group as an enemy. A history of devaluation of the group that becomes the victim, past violence against the group that becomes the perpetrator leading to psychological wounds, authoritarian cultures and political systems, and the passivity of internal and external witnesses (bystanders) all contribute to the probability that the violence develops into genocide. Intense conflict between groups that is unresolved, becomes intractable and violent can also lead to genocide. The conditions that lead to genocide provide guidance to early prevention, such as humanizing a devalued group, creating ideologies that embrace all groups, and activating bystander responses. There is substantial research to indicate how this can be done, but information is only slowly transformed into action.
question: In the build-up to genocide, what have other authors focused on?, answer: structural conditions | question: What processes are thought to create an evolution toward genocide?, answer: psychological and social | question: Who revealed the starting points of this evolution to be economic deterioration and political confusion?, answer: Ervin Staub | question: A history of what is just one factor that contributes to the probability of violence developing into genocide?, answer: devaluation of the group | question: What is one preventive effort in circumventing conditions that lead to genocide?, answer: humanizing a devalued group