Art for Reconstruction: A creative and art‐based intervention for peacebuilding and reconciliation to reduce intergroup hostility and stigma after a protracted armed conflict

Pinto‐Garcia, María Elisa; Serna‐Hosie, Renata; Casas, Andrés; Méndez, Nathalie Méndez

doi:10.1002/jid.3652

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“…For instance, researchers have crafted engaging narrative dramas to present humanizing depictions of outgroup members or shift perceptions of social norms (Bilali, 2022; Bilali et al, 2016; Bilali & Vollhardt, 2013; Paluck, 2009). Similar interventions have used captivating artistic performances to promote empathy, stimulate peaceful collective action, and reduce outgroup stigmatization (Feuchte et al, 2020; Hasson et al, 2022; Pinto-Garcia et al, 2022). An exciting new development is to use immersive virtual reality to facilitate vicarious intergroup contact and promote ingroup criticism (Hasler et al, 2021; Hasson et al, 2019).…”

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Intergroup psychological interventions: The motivational challenge.

Landry,

Halperin

2023

American Psychologist

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Social scientists have increasingly applied insights from descriptive research to develop psychological interventions aimed at improving intergroup relations. These interventions have achieved marked success-reducing prejudicial attitudes, fostering support for conciliatory social policies, and promoting peacebuilding behaviors. At the same time, intergroup conflict continues to rage in part because individuals often lack motivation to engage with these promising interventions. We take a step toward addressing this issue by developing a framework of approaches for delivering interventions to an unmotivated target audience. Along with (a) directly motivating targets by increasing their values and expectancies for addressing intergroup conflict, researchers can deliver interventions by (b) satisfying other psychological motivations of the target audience, (c) providing an instrumental benefit for engaging with the intervention, (d) embedding the intervention in a hedonically captivating medium, or (e) bypassing motivational barriers entirely by delivering the intervention outside of targets' conscious awareness. We define each approach and use illustrative examples to organize them into a conceptual framework before concluding with implications and future directions.

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Intergroup psychological interventions: The motivational challenge.

Landry,

Halperin

2023

American Psychologist

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“…Work in this vein has leveraged rich narrative dramas to present humanizing depictions of outgroup members or shift perceptions of social norms (Bilali, 2022;Bilali et al, 2016;Bilali & Vollhardt, 2013;Paluck, 2009). Similar interventions have used captivating artistic performances to promote empathy, stimulate peaceful collective action, and reduce outgroup stigmatization (Feuchte et al, 2020;Hasson et al, 2022;Pinto-Garcia et al, 2022). An exciting new development is to use immersive virtual reality to facilitate vicarious intergroup contact and promote ingroup criticism (Hasler et al, 2021;Hasson et al, 2019).…”

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Intergroup Psychological Interventions: The Motivational Challenge

Landry¹

2023

Preprint

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Social scientists have increasingly applied insights from descriptive research to develop psychological interventions aimed at improving intergroup relations. These interventions have achieved marked success in lab and field studies—reducing prejudicial attitudes and affective polarization, fostering support for conciliatory social policies, and promoting peace-building behaviors. At the same time, intergroup conflict continues to rage in part because individuals often lack motivation to engage with these promising interventions. So far, much time and effort has been devoted to designing effective intervention content that produces psychological change, but less attention has been paid to this “motivational challenge.” We take a step toward addressing this imbalance by developing a conceptual framework of methods by which social scientists can deliver the core content of their intergroup interventions to an unmotivated target audience. Along with (a) directly motivating targets by getting them on board with the intervention’s ultimate aim, researchers can deliver the core intervention content by (b) tapping into other psychological motivations of the target audience, (c) embedding the core content in other attractive features of the intervention unrelated to the conflict, or (d) bypass motivational barriers entirely by delivering the intervention outside of targets’ conscious awareness. We define each method and use illustrative examples to organize them into a conceptual framework, before concluding with implications and future directions.

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“…There is not a single trauma or rather there is not a universal way in which trauma is expressed, it depends on the socio-historical process of each subject, the collective or community belongings in which it is inscribed, as well as cultural practices. Therefore, territorial healing is foremost an iterative process related to a situated humanisation and conflict transformation, stemming from acknowledging and recognizing one's own and others' trauma through dialogue, empathy, symbolism, manifestation, counternarratives, and changing behaviours (Pinto-Garcia, 2022). Territorial healing can contribute to gaining a greater sense of trust, control and security, a sense of collective recovery in a recognition of the extent and temporality of the collective impacts on the community spirit and their affective connection to the place.…”

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“…Rest is a practice of collective care and an integral part of healing justice movements to claim reparations and a precondition for enabling collective imagination (Hersey, 2022). That is why trauma healing approaches need “to relate to the past to build from the present and towards the future” (Pinto-Garcia, 2022: 5) to heal territorial wounds. In this way, the role of planning becomes critical for re-shaping damaging urban conditions and spatial imaginations.…”

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Territorial healing: A spatial spiral weaving transformative reparation

Ortiz

Córdoba²

2023

Planning Theory

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This article introduces the concept of territorial healing as a strategy for holistic intervention with communities affected by violence-related trauma. Violence exerted in places generates affective and territorial ruptures contained in socio-emotional wounds and disruptions in the social and institutional fabric that weakens collective life. Building on post/in-conflict cities studies, peacebuilding studies, and a decolonial approach, we argue that territorial healing agglutinates myriad interventions aimed at a collective restorative reparation of geo-traumas (Pain, 2021) and promotes the construction of collective subjects for decision-making in territorial processes. The article highlights the need to go beyond the local/spatial turn of peacebuilding and reparative planning by providing a more robust understanding of how to frame the political project of reparative justice in urban spaces and across different scales. Territorial healing processes go beyond institutionalized frameworks to involve decentralized and autonomous processes that expand the spatiality of the symbolic, corporeal and emotions of collective urban life. This article suggests that a territorial healing trajectory requires weaving the mapping of body-territory-earth (Cabnal, 2019), collective memory, and spatial imagination as a strategy to manage existing conflicts through therapeutic dialogue and the shaping of reparative infrastructures.

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Art for Reconstruction: A creative and art‐based intervention for peacebuilding and reconciliation to reduce intergroup hostility and stigma after a protracted armed conflict

Cited by 3 publications

References 25 publications

Intergroup psychological interventions: The motivational challenge.

Intergroup psychological interventions: The motivational challenge.

Intergroup Psychological Interventions: The Motivational Challenge

Territorial healing: A spatial spiral weaving transformative reparation

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