This book outlines the importance of collective resilience for groups who have faced challenging or threatening circumstances, such as war and political violence.
This book outlines the importance of collective resilience for civilians in the face of war and political violence, examining how people develop social resources to confront adversity and foster meaningful change.
Drawing on novel research from a range of diverse contexts, the book explores a nuanced picture of how political violence can lead to increased social cooperation and action within communities, as well as the well-documented negative dynamics. It brings together research into the collective resilience of civilians in the context of political violence and repression in three fields: psychological well-being, resistance and collective action, and reconciliation and peacebuilding. Chapters describe the underlying social-psychological processes behind collective resilience and discuss the limits and boundary conditions in the emergence of resilience. The contributors illustrate how communities leverage solidarity and shared identity to challenge divisive violence, pursue justive, and build sustainable peace, empasizing the importance of social processes in transforming harm into pathways for recovery, empowerment, and resilience.
The Power of Collective Resilience Against Political Violence and Repression will be highly relevant reading for postgraduate students and academics in the fields of social and political psychology, and those researching intergroup relations, social change, peace, and conflict. It will also be of interest to activists interested in collective action and resilience.
Collective resilience against political violence and repression: An
introduction
Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, Blerina Këllezi & Sandra Peni
I. Beyond trauma: Collective resilience in coping with victimisation
A social identity model of collective resilience in emergent groups
John Drury & Evangelos Ntontis
Understanding collective resilience of civilians in the contexts of political
violence and repression
Orla Muldoon, Anna-Mariya Lashkay, Albta Lebedová, Dearbhla Moroney,
Catriona Shelly, & Lisa Skilton
The good, the bad and the ugly: Social cure and social curse in the context
of political violence and repression
Blerina Këllezi
II. Beyond resignation: Collective resilience as resistance
They are not your cheerleaders, mate, they are coming to fight the fight.
Media presentations of womens collective resilience and resistance in the
Sudan revolution
Sigrun Marie Moss, Lara-Sabina Sorgenfrei, & Salma Mohamed Abdalmunim
Abdalla
Resilience versus Resistance? Insights from the Recent Multiple-Crises
Context of Lebanon
Yara Zebian, Haneen Eldiri, & Rim Saab
Rethinking collective resilience under oppression through Kurdish
understandings of power and resistance
canan cokan & Helin Ünal
The power of Black resilience: The role of history in contributing to
collective resilience
Hema Preya Selvanathan & Phia Salter
Collective Resilience and Resistance
Carmen Marazzi, Aritra Mukherjee, & Johanna Ray Vollhardt
III. Beyond us vs. them: Inclusive resilience
Inclusive resilience in violent settings
Sandra Peni, Guy Elcheroth, John Dixon, & Simon Hug
Altruism born of suffering: How empathy, compassion, and self-compassion
promote coping with violence
Patricia Cernadas Curotto
Beyond Vulnerability: Collective Victimization Beliefs that are Linked to
Collective Resilience
Hu Young Jeong, Michelle S. Twali, & Johanna Ray Vollhardt
Remembering, resilience, and intergroup relations
Sandra Obradovi
The power and limits of collective resilience: Conceptualising collective
resilience that recognizes the impact of political violence and repression on
groups and societies
Blerina Këllezi, Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, & Sandra Peni
Yasemin Gülsüm Acar is Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews, UK. Yasemins research interests include outcomes of collective action, social identity, and intergroup conflict.
Blerina Këllezi is Associate Professor in Social and Trauma Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Blerinas research investigates the collective nature of the experiences, impact and responses to mass human rights violations.
Sandra Peni is a senior researcher and lecturer at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Sandras research examines the impact of collective victimization on individuals emotions, beliefs, and actions in various conflict-affected societies.
