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Developing a Global Community: A Social Psychological Perspective

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Consider a group of people who are part of the same family, have common ancestors, live in the same neighborhood and together form an interdependent community.

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  1. 1.

    This text was first published by Morton Deutsch with Eric Marcus/Sarah (2015). This Chapter is a revised version of a chapter entitled “A Framework for Thinking about Developing a Global Community, which appeared in Coleman/Deutsch (2012)”. The permission to include this text here was granted on 11 November 2014 by Rights and Permissions of Springer in Heidelberg.

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    The authors have undertaken an initial change effort to inspire people of the world to learn about, take, and act upon this pledge. We are at the beginning of our efforts: gaining prominent and well-known people to endorse and act upon this pledge as a way to influence others to do so. This is one of myriad ways to support the development of a global community.

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Deutsch, M., Marcus, E.C., Brazaitis, S. (2015). Developing a Global Community: A Social Psychological Perspective. In: Morton Deutsch: Major Texts on Peace Psychology. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 31. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15443-5_10

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