Open AccessPsychological basis of the reconciliation process
Author(s) -
Nebojša Petrović
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
temida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0941
pISSN - 1450-6637
DOI - 10.2298/tem0204053p
Subject(s) - contradiction , righteousness , ideology , certainty , process (computing) , social psychology , psychology , epistemology , sociology , political science , law , philosophy , politics , computer science , theology , operating system
In the psychological framework, reconciliation is a socio-cultural process, which includes majority of the members of the society, who form new beliefs about former enemies, about their own society and relations between these two groups. This process is about changing the system of beliefs of the members of the society. Maybe the most important change in this ideology of conflict is about the certainty of absolute righteousness of our own aims, which is in contradiction with similar beliefs of the opposite side