Examining the impact of learning about a resolved conflict on attitudes in an ongoing conflict: Evidence from the Israeli–Palestinian context

Shulman, Deborah, Reifen-Tagar, Michal, Omri, Noa and Halperin, Eran (2025) Examining the impact of learning about a resolved conflict on attitudes in an ongoing conflict: Evidence from the Israeli–Palestinian context. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. ISSN 1368-4302

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Abstract

A popular intervention for increasing support for peace in violent intergroup conflicts is to describe the peaceful resolution of other conflicts. In four experiments, we tested the effectiveness of this approach in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by exposing Jewish-Israelis to information about the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process, or about tourism in Northern Ireland as a control. We found that learning about the historical peace process generally led participants to view conflicts as more malleable, their own conflict as less unique, and led to unfreezing of conflict-related beliefs. However, it neither increased hope nor consistently boosted support for conciliatory policies. We explored boundary conditions and found effects were often stronger among leftist and centrist compared with rightists. Moreover, explicitly drawing analogies between conflicts at the outset proved ineffective, whereas exposing participants to the historical conflict and peace process without mentioning the proximal conflict was more successful.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Funding: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The last author of this research was funded by an European Research Council grant (No. 864347), and the second author was funded by the Israel Science Foundation (Grant No. 2436/19).
Uncontrolled Keywords:	conciliatory policies,historical analogies,intergroup conflict,israeli–palestinian conflict,psychological interventions,social psychology,cultural studies,communication,arts and humanities (miscellaneous),sociology and political science ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200/3207
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
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Date Deposited:	29 Apr 2025 14:32
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2025 14:32
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/99138
DOI:	10.1177/13684302251319689

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