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Abstract: This dissertation seeks to contribute to both the theory and
practice of reconciliation by offering a theoretical framework for reconciliation that can
be used by scholars to test the effects of various interventions designed to promote
reconciliation, and by implementing the first randomized field experiment to test the
effects of facilitated intergroup contact in a post-conflict ... read moresociety. In Aceh, Indonesia,
108 ex-combatants and persons affected by conflict participated in one of six three-day
workshops or in a control group to assess the effects of dialogue-based, training-based
and mixed-method conflict resolution techniques on prejudice, empathy, trust, tolerance,
forgiveness and healing, which served as proxies for reconciliation. While the results of
this study are modest, they provide the first empirical evidence that intergroup contact
programs can reduce prejudice, and increase trust, forgiveness and healing in the highly
charged context of post-conflict societies, suggesting that contact programs may over time
become an effective means of encouraging reconciliation in conflict-affected
societies.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2012.
Submitted to the Dept. of Diplomacy, History, and Politics.
Advisor: Eileen Babbitt.
Committee: Nadim Rouhana, and Peter Uvin.
Keywords: International relations, and Social psychology.read less
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