Explaining the breakdown of ethnic relations
Subtitle: why neighbors kill
By: edited by Victoria M. Esses and Richard A. Vernon.
Contributors: Esses, Victoria M.; Vernon, Richard, 1945-
Series: Social issues and interventions
Publisher: Blackwell Pub. Ltd.; Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781405170581; 9781405170598
Subjects: Ethnic conflict; Social conflict; Violence; Intergroup relations; Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why neighbors kill : an overview / Richard A. Vernon and Victoria M. Esses; title: Individual factors; title: Extreme harmdoing : a view from the social psychology of justice / Carolyn L. Hafer, James M. Olson, and Alexandra A. Peterson; title: On the nature of contemporary prejudice : from subtle bias to severe consequences / John F. Dovidio, Adam R. Pearson, Samuel L. Gaertner, and Gordon Hodson; title: Why neighbors kill : prior intergroup contact and killing of ethnic outgroup neighbors / Miles Hewstone, Nicole Tausch, Alberto Voci, Jared Kenworthy, Joanne Hughes, and Ed Cairns; title: Why neighbors don't stop the killing : the role of group-based schadenfreude  / Russell Spears and Colin Wayne Leach; title: Societal factors; title: When neighbors blame neighbors : scapegoating and the breakdown of ethnic relations / Peter Glick; title: The influence of the threatening transitional context on Israeli Jews : reactions to Al Aqsa Intifada / Daniel Bar-Tal and Keren Sharvit; title: Why do states kill citizens? or, why racism is an insufficient explanation / Patricia Marchak; title: Synthesis; title: Theories of genocide : the case of Rwanda / Howard Adelman; title: Applying the unified instrumental model of group conflict to understanding ethnic conflict and violence : the case of Sudan / Victoria M. Esses and Lynne M. Jackson; title: The origins of genocide and mass killing, prevention, reconciliation, and their application to Rwanda / Ervin Staub.