- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Overcoming Evil
- 1 Introduction: I
- 2 Introduction: II
- 3 The Sources of Conflict between Groups and Primary Examples
- 4 Instigating Conditions
- 5 Psychological and Societal/Group Processes That Arise from Instigating Conditions
- 6 Learning by Doing in Individuals and Groups
- 7 Internal and External Bystanders
- 8 Cultural/Societal Characteristics That Make Hostility and Violence More Likely
- 9 Perpetration and the Perpetrators
- 10 Understanding the Woundedness/Psychological Transformation of All Parties in Mass Violence
- 11 Introduction and Late Prevention
- 12 Promoting Understanding, Healing, and Reconciliation in Rwanda
- 13 Constructive Responses to Difficult Life Conditions and Conflict, Preventive Diplomacy, and Dialogue
- 14 Developing Positive Orientation to the “Other”
- 15 Beyond “Us” and “Them”
- 16 Changing Hearts and Minds
- 17 The Potential and Power of Active Bystanders: Leaders, Nations, and the International System
- 18 Generating Constructive Action by Leaders and Citizens, Creating Structures for Prevention
- 19 Healing/Psychological Recovery and Reconciliation
- 20 Other Elements of Reconciliation: Collective Memory, Shared History, and Justice
- 21 Forgiveness, Healing, and Reconciliation
- 22 Raising Inclusively Caring, Morally Courageous Children and Altruism Born of Suffering
- 23 Recommendations and Conclusions
- References
- Author index
- Subject Index
Generating Constructive Action by Leaders and Citizens, Creating Structures for Prevention
Generating Constructive Action by Leaders and Citizens, Creating Structures for Prevention
- Chapter:
- (p.406) 18 Generating Constructive Action by Leaders and Citizens, Creating Structures for Prevention
- Source:
- Overcoming Evil
- Author(s):
Ervin Staub
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter discusses the role of constructive leaders in preventing violence. Constructive leaders have characteristics such as cognitive complexity, seeing the humanity even of the enemy, and empathy. The training of leaders at varied levels, of citizens, and the media can all develop the sociopsychological conditions that contribute to constructive leadership, active bystandership, effective interaction with members of the other group, and the building of institutions that help prevent and promote reconciliation.
Keywords: cognitive complexity, empathy, prevention, constructive leaders, peacemakers, bystanders, reconciuation
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Overcoming Evil
- 1 Introduction: I
- 2 Introduction: II
- 3 The Sources of Conflict between Groups and Primary Examples
- 4 Instigating Conditions
- 5 Psychological and Societal/Group Processes That Arise from Instigating Conditions
- 6 Learning by Doing in Individuals and Groups
- 7 Internal and External Bystanders
- 8 Cultural/Societal Characteristics That Make Hostility and Violence More Likely
- 9 Perpetration and the Perpetrators
- 10 Understanding the Woundedness/Psychological Transformation of All Parties in Mass Violence
- 11 Introduction and Late Prevention
- 12 Promoting Understanding, Healing, and Reconciliation in Rwanda
- 13 Constructive Responses to Difficult Life Conditions and Conflict, Preventive Diplomacy, and Dialogue
- 14 Developing Positive Orientation to the “Other”
- 15 Beyond “Us” and “Them”
- 16 Changing Hearts and Minds
- 17 The Potential and Power of Active Bystanders: Leaders, Nations, and the International System
- 18 Generating Constructive Action by Leaders and Citizens, Creating Structures for Prevention
- 19 Healing/Psychological Recovery and Reconciliation
- 20 Other Elements of Reconciliation: Collective Memory, Shared History, and Justice
- 21 Forgiveness, Healing, and Reconciliation
- 22 Raising Inclusively Caring, Morally Courageous Children and Altruism Born of Suffering
- 23 Recommendations and Conclusions
- References
- Author index
- Subject Index
