Building Peace Through Knowledge: The Israeli-Palestinian Case

Abstract

Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Attitudes and Ideology -- Introduction -- Toward a Definition of Attitude -- Toward a Definition of Ideology -- Attitudes: The Beginnings -- Attitudinal Ambivalence -- Attitude Change and Higher Order Needs -- The Move from Attitude to Behavior: Is Prediction Possible? Attitude-Behavior Relation Research: A Half-Century of Development -- The Inquiry Continues -- Attitude-Behavior (in)Consistency in Prosocial Domains -- Attitude-Behavior (in)Consistency in Health Domains -- State of the Science -- Improving Attitude-Behavior Correspondence -- Attitude Measurement -- Putting the Pieces Together: Organization of Political Attitudes -- Ideology as 'Hot Cognition' -- Ideology and Cognitive Processes in Attitude Formation -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Conflict Studies -- Introduction -- Intergroup Conflict: Toward a Definition -- Major Types of Intergroup Conflict -- Intractable Conflict -- Ideological Roots of Violent Conflicts -- Scope of Justice -- Somebody Is Going to Pay: Retribution and Revenge -- Far from Fun and Games: Game Theory and Conflict -- Group Identification -- Perceptual Approaches -- Ethos of Conflict -- Historical Memory -- Collective Victimization -- Collective Emotions And Intergroup Conflict -- Salient Intergroup Context: Making Peace Hard -- Social Categorization -- Conflict Resolution Theories Multiplicity -- Multiple Victims -- Dismantle the Conflict-Producing Attractor -- 'Re-legitimization' -- Engage with Collective Memory -- From Identities of Conflict to Identities of Peace -- Preventing Violent Conflict, Forestalling Re-eruption -- Conclusion: A Step-Wise Approach -- References -- 4 People-to-People (P2P) Interventions -- Introduction -- State of the Research -- Intergroup Contact: The Theory -- Intergroup Contact: The Practice -- Contact Hypothesis: Critiques