PsySR's new Peacebuilding and Reconciliation Action Committee is working to develop a comprehensive listing of valuable links and resources for people working in this area or wishing to learn more about it. Below is a preliminary list with new additions to be added on a regular basis. We welcome recommendations of materials to be added.
"Us & Them": PsySR's Presenter's Manual for Moderating Group Conflict
Written by Stephen Fabick and based on a project of the Michigan Chapter of PsySR, this Presenter's Manual provides tools for intervention before intergroup prejudice and tensions erupt into violence. The program it describes is applicable to an array of problems including religious intolerance, racial tension, ethnic turmoil, and community divisiveness.
Two Important PsySR Manuals: "Dismantling the Mask of Enmity" and "Enemy Images"
These two manuals were prepared by PsySR a decade and a half apart. Both the Cold War era Dismantling the Mask of Enmity and the Gulf War era Enemy Images remain timely in describing how to dismantle images that limit our thinking about security and that fuel tensions and wars.
Organizations and Websites of Interest
Karuna Center for Peacebuilding
The Karuna Center for Peacebuilding is a non-profit organization that addresses the challenge of ethnic, religious, and political conflict by promoting a culture of peace through the prevention and transformation of violent conflict.
TRANSCEND: A Network for Peace and Development
Under the leadership of Johan Galtung, Norwegian-born world scholar and founder of the Transcend Approach to conflict transformation, this organization works to bring about a more peaceful world, using action, training, dissemination and research to handle conflicts with nonviolence, empathy and creativity, for acceptable and sustainable outcomes.
United States Institute of Peace
The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress. Its goals are to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and development, and increase conflict management capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide.
Books of Interest
Boulanger, G. (2007). Wounded by Reality: Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma. Mahwah, NJ: The Analytic Press.
Hatzfeld, J. (2007). Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak. New York: Other Press.
Herman, J. (1992). Trauma and Recovery. New York: Basic Books.
Lederach, J. P. (1995). Preparing for Peace: Conflict Transformation across Cultures. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
Minow, M. (1998). Between Vengeance and Forgiveness. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Stover, E., & Weinstein, H. (Eds.). (2007). My Neighbor My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Volkan, V. (2006). Killing in the Name of Identity: A Study of Bloody Conflicts. Charlottesville, VA: Pitchstone Publishing.
A Graduate Level Curriculum For Trauma Intervention and Conflict Resolution
This Graduate Level Curriculum for trauma intervention and conflict resolution in ethnopolitical warfare was prepared by a joint task force of the American and Canadian Psychological Associations. PsySR served as the secretariat for this important project.