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The Role of National Identity in Conflict Resolution: Experiences from Israeli-Palestinian Problem-Solving Workshops (2001)

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Herbert C. Kelman: A Pioneer in the Social Psychology of Conflict Analysis and Resolution

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My colleagues’ and my work as scholar-practitioners has focused on analysis and resolution of protracted, seemingly intractable conflicts between national, ethnic, or other kinds of identity groups, best exemplified by intercommunal conflicts, such as those in Cyprus, Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, Bosnia, and apartheid South Africa.

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    This text was first published as: Herbert C. Kelman (2001). The role of national identity in conflict resolution: Experiences from Israeli-Palestinian problem-solving workshops. In R.D. Ashmore, L. Jussim, & D. Wilder (Eds.), Social identity, intergroup conflict, and conflict reduction (pp. 187–212). Oxford, England and New York, NY: Oxford University Press. The permission to include this text here was granted on 14 January 2015 by Mary Bergin-Cartwright, permissions manager, Oxford University Press, UK and by permission of Oxford University Press, USA; see at: www.oup.com.

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    The work reported here is carried out under the auspices of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution (PICAR), which I direct at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. I am grateful to the Center for providing a home for PICAR, to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for providing financial support for PICAR over a number of years; and to Donna Hicks, Nadim Rouhana, and my other PICAR colleagues.

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    I am grateful to the organizations that have provided financial support for the Joint Working Group over the years: the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the Charles R. Bronfman Foundation, the U.S. Information Agency, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as the Renner Institut in Vienna and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Herbert C. Kelman

  2. School of International Service, International Peace and Conflict Resolution, American University, Washington, DC, USA

    Ronald J. Fisher

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Kelman, H.C., Fisher, R.J. (2016). The Role of National Identity in Conflict Resolution: Experiences from Israeli-Palestinian Problem-Solving Workshops (2001). In: Kelman, H., Fisher, R. (eds) Herbert C. Kelman: A Pioneer in the Social Psychology of Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39032-1_5

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