Syllabus PSY4506, Spring 2020
General readings:
Moss, S. M., Ulu?, ?. M. & Acar, Y. G. (2019). Doing Research in Conflict Contexts: Practical and Ethical Challenges for Researchers When Conducting Fieldwork. Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology. doi: 10.1037/pac0000334 (10 pages)
Staub, E. (2013) Building a Peaceful Society. Origins, Prevention, and Reconciliation After Genocide and Other Group Violence. American Psychologist, Vol. 68, no. 7, 576–589 doi: 10.1037/a0032045. 13 pages.
Lecture 1, 7 February, 10.15-12. Lecturer: Sigrun Marie Moss, UiO. Title: Human Rights and psychology
Readings:
Hagenaars, P. (2016). Towards a Human Rights Based and Oriented Psychology. Psychology and Developing Societies, 28(2) 183–202. DOI: 10.1177/0971333616657170. 19 pages
Hamber, B., Gallagher, E. & Ventevogel, P. (2014). Narrowing the gap between psychosocial practice, peacebuilding and wider social change: an introduction to the Special Section in this issue. Intervention: Journal of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Conflict Affected Area, 12 (1), 7-15.
http://www.interventionjournal.com/sites/default/files/Narrowing_the_gap_between_psychosocial_practice,2.pdf. 8 pages
Silove, D. (1999). The psychological effects of torture, mass human rights violations, and refugee trauma. Toward an integrated conceptual framework. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 187, 200-207. 7 pages
Sveaass, N. (2013). Gross human rights violations and reparation under international law: approaching rehabilitation as a form of reparation. Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2013; 4: 10.3402/ejpt.v4i0.17191. doi: 10.3402/ejpt.v4i0.17191.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3650211/. 18 pages
Lecture 2, 14 February, 10.15-12. Lecturer: Philippa Kerr, UiO
Title: How progressive discourses of citizenship, rights and struggle are co-opted into justifications for anti-immigrant violence in post-apartheid South Africa
Readings:
Kerr, P., Durrheim, K. & Dixon, J. (2019) Xenophobic violence and struggle discourse in South Africa. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 54 (7), 995-1011.
Palmary, I. (2016). 'Violence in the name of peace: Attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa.' In Gender, sexuality and migration in South Africa: Governing morality. Cham: Switzerland, pp. 79-99
Billig, M. (2012). 'The notion of prejudice: Some rhetorical and ideological aspects.' In J. Dixon & M. Levine (Eds), Beyond prejudice: Extending the social psychology of conflict, inequality and social change. Cambridge: CUP, pp. 139-157
Lecture 3, 21 February, 10.15-12. Lecturer: Ragnhild Dybdal, Oslo Met.
Title: Psychological interventions in conflict and post-conflict
Readings:
Dybdahl, R. (2001). Children and mothers in war: an outcome study of a psychosocial intervention program. Child Development, 72(4), 1214-1230. (16 pages)
Alison Schafer, Melissa Harper-Shehadeh, Kenneth Carswell, Edith van’t Hof, Jennifer Hall, Aiysha Malik, Teresa Au and Mark van Ommeren (July 2018). Scalable psychological interventions for people affected by adversity. Humanitarian Exchange. (4 pages) https://odihpn.org/magazine/scalable-psychological-interventions-for-people-affected-by-adversity/.
Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) (2014). Reference Group for Mental Health and Psychosocial support in Emergency Settings. Recommendations for Conducting Ethical Mental Health and Psychosocial Research in Emergency Settings. Geneva: IASC.
Wessells, M. (2004) “Diplomacy in an Era of Intrastate Conflict: Challenges of Transforming Cultures of Violence into Cultures of Peace” in Langholtz, J. & Stout, C. (eds.). The Psychology of Diplomacy. Westport, CT: Prager. pp.79-96 (17 p)
Lecture 4, 28 February, 10.15-12. Lecturer: Evelin Lindner, UiO. Title: Humiliation and dignity, focusing on Rwanda
Readings:
Fernandez, S., Halperin, E., Gaviria, E., Agudo, R., & Saguy, T. (2018). Understanding the role of the perpetrator in triggering humiliation: The effects of hostility and status. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 76, 1-11.
Gasanabo, Jean-Demascene. The Rwandan Akazi (forced labour) system, history, and humiliation: [Paper in: Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives. Lindner, Evelin Gerda and Wyatt-Brown, Bertram (eds).] [online]. Social Alternatives, Vol. 25, No. 1, First quarter 2006: 50-55.
Lindner, E. G. (2001). Humiliation - Trauma that has been overlooked: An analysis based on fieldwork in Germany, Rwanda/Burundi, and Somalia. Traumatology, 7(1), 43–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/153476560100700104
McCauley, Clark (2017). "Toward a psychology of humiliation in asymmetric conflict." In The American Psychologist, 72 (3, Special Issue: Psychology of Terrorism), 255–65. doi: 10.1037/amp0000063.www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-amp0000063.pdf.
Comment on McCauley: Hartling, Linda Margaret, and Evelin Gerda Lindner (2017). "Toward a globally informed psychology of humiliation: Comment on McCauley (2017)." In American Psychologist, 72 (7), 705–06. doi: 10.1037/amp0000188. http://humiliationstudies.org/documents/hartling/HartlingLindnerAPA2017.pdf.
Lecture 5, 6 March, 10.15-12. Lecturer: Sigrun Marie Moss, UiO. Political leadership in conflict: Mobilisation and demobilisation.
Readings:
Moss, S. M. (2019). Leadership strategies of mobilisation and demobilisation in Sudan. In special edition: Journal of Social and Political Psychology.
Reicher, S., Hopkins, N., Levine, M., & Rath, R. (2005). Entrepreneurs of hate and entrepreneurs of solidarity: Social identity as a basis for mass communication.? International Review of the Red Cross, 87(860), 621-637. 26 pages
Sharkey, H. J. (2008). Arab identity and ideology in Sudan: The politics of language, ethnicity, and race. African Affairs, 107(426), 21-43. doi:10.1093/afraf/adm068. 22 pages
Van Zomeren, M., & Iyer, A. (2009). Introduction to the social and psychological dynamics of collective action. Journal of Social Issues, 65(4), 645-660. 16 pages
Additional recommended readings:
Brounéus, K. (2008). Analyzing Reconciliation: A Structured Method for Measuring National Reconciliation Initiatives. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology,
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t775653690, Online Publication Date: 01 July 2008, 291-313. 21 pages
Hartling, Linda Margaret, Evelin Gerda Lindner, Ulrich Josef Spalthoff, and Michael Francis Britton (2013). "Humiliation: A nuclear bomb of emotions?" In Psicología Política, 46 (Mayo), 55–76. www.uv.es/garzon/psicologia%20politica/N46.htm. 21 pages
Moss, S. M., & Vollhardt, J. R. (2016). “You Can't Give a Syringe with Unity”: Rwandan Responses to the Government's Single Recategorization Policies. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 16(1), 325-359. 34 pages
Skjelsb?k, I., Sveaass, N. & Kvaale, R.M.G. (2015).Therapeutic prosecutions?
Assessing the therapeutic potential of criminal prosecution of international crimes at the International Criminal Court. Prio policy brief, 04, 2015. http://file.prio.no/Publication_files/prio/Skjelsbaek,%20Sveaass,%20Kvaale%20-%20Therapeutic%20Prosecutions,%20PRIO%20Policy%20Brief%204-2015.pdf. 4 pages