
Collective violence and the culture of peace: researching the social psychology of memory and social reconciliation
Author(s) -
Nekane Basabe,
Darío Páez
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
deusto journal of human rights
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2603-6002
pISSN - 2530-4275
DOI - 10.18543/djhr.2282
Subject(s) - human rights , sociology , population , politics , democracy , criminology , latin americans , social science , political science , gender studies , law , demography
This monograph aims to disseminate the results of various research studies carried out in the field of social and community psychology. The studies focus on efforts to build a culture of peace in post-conflict contexts and societies that have suffered collective and socio-political violence, with multiple and persistent human rights violations. Six studies on the psychosocial effects of transitional justice rituals from Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Basque country, Chile, and Ecuador compose this issue. This issue presents a series of results regarding the effects of reparation rituals and Truth Commissions, combining different methods and analysis strategies, including general population surveys, newspaper and social media content analysis, community intervention assessments and qualitative documentary analysis. Finally, two review books were included. First, a Peace Psychology Book that explores the implications and difficulties faced by societies that have experienced large-scale collective violence. Second, the problem of human rights violations and how to confront them, socio-political conflicts and the building of a culture of democracy and peace in Latin America are transversal axes of the chapters of this second book.