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Notes on Contributors ix <p>Series Editor’s Preface xix</p> <p>1 Introduction 1<br /> <i>Kai J. Jonas and Thomas A. Morton</i></p> <p><b>Part I Theoretical Approaches 17</b></p> <p>2 Justice Sensitivity as Resource or Risk Factor in Civic Engagement 19<br /> <i>Anna Baumert, Nadine Thomas, and Manfred Schmitt</i></p> <p>3 Regulating Psychological Threat: The Motivational Consequences of Threatening Contexts 38<br /> <i>Bastiaan T. Rutjens, Joop van der Pligt, and Frenk van Harreveld</i></p> <p>4 Prosocial Behavior in the Context of Crisis 57<br /> <i>Kai J. Jonas</i></p> <p>5 A Social Ecological Perspective on Risk and Resilience for Children and Political Violence: Implications for Restoring Civil Societies 78<br /> <i>E. Mark Cummings, Laura K. Taylor, and Christine E. Merrilees</i></p> <p>6 Everyday Helping and Responses to Crises: A Model for Understanding Volunteerism 98<br /> <i>Allen M. Omoto, Mark Snyder, and Justin D. Hackett</i></p> <p>7 Collective Action as Civic Engagement: Toward an Encompassing Psychological Perspective 119<br /> <i>Martijn van Zomeren, Tom Postmes, and Russell Spears</i></p> <p>8 Intergroup Relations in Post-Conflict Contexts: How the Past Influences the Present (and Future) 135<br /> <i>John F. Dovidio, Samuel L. Gaertner, Ruth K. Ditlmann, and Tessa V. West</i></p> <p>9 Humanizing Others Without Normalizing Harm: The Role of Human Concepts and Categories in Intergroup Reconciliation and Forgiveness 156<br /> <i>Thomas A. Morton, Matthew J. Hornsey, and Tom Postmes</i></p> <p><b>Part II Application and Intervention 175</b></p> <p>10 Social Rituals and Collective Expression of Emotion After a Collective Trauma: Participation in Gacaca and Assimilation of the Rwandan Genocide 177<br /> <i>Bernard Rimé, Patrick Kanyangara, Dario Paez, and Vincent Yzerbyt</i></p> <p>11 Competitive Victimhood Among Jewish and Palestinian Israelis Reflects Differential Threats to Their Identities: The Perspective of the Needs-Based Model 192<br /> <i>Nurit Shnabel and Masi Noor</i></p> <p>12 Identity, Conflict, and the Experience of Trauma: The Social Psychology of Intervention and Engagement Following Political Violence 208<br /> <i>Orla T. Muldoon and Robert D. Lowe</i></p> <p>13 Divided by a Common Language? Conceptualizing Identity, Discrimination, and Alienation 222<br /> <i>Leda M. Blackwood, Nick Hopkins, and Stephen D. Reicher</i></p> <p>14 Civil Society Responses to the HIV/AIDS Crisis: The Role of Social Representations in Shaping Collective and Individual Action 237<br /> <i>Stefan St€urmer and Birte Siem</i></p> <p>15 Opinion-Based Groups and the Restoration of Civil Society 250<br /> <i>Craig McGarty, Girish Lala, and Emma Thomas</i></p> <p>16 Moral Courage Training Programs as a Means of Overcoming Societal Crises 265<br /> <i>Veronika Brandst€atter and Kai J. Jonas</i></p> <p>17 Media as an Instrument for Reconstructing Communities Following Conflict 284<br /> <i>Elizabeth Levy Paluck</i></p> <p>Index 299</p>

<p><b>Thomas A. Morton</b> is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Exeter, UK. His research focuses on how people experience and express their social identities, and the strategic considerations and reality constraints that govern these processes. His work on this theme has covered such topics as conflict and forgiveness, intragroup processes, deviance and change, prejudice, and stereotyping. He is currently Associate Editor for the British Journal of Social Psychology.</p> <p> </p> <p><b>Kai J. Jonas</b> is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He studied social sciences and mathematics at the University of Gottingen, Germany. Since 2008 he has been tenured assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, publishing in international journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. He has also developed, implemented and documented applied intervention programs.</p>

<p>Breakdowns in civil societies can be catalyzed by factors ranging from war and genocide to natural disaster, disease and economic downturns. <i>Restoring Civil Societies</i> examines social processes related to civic engagement in the wake of these societal ruptures. The authors show how crises in civil society can be both pervasive and localized, broad-based and limited to defined social sub-groups. Whatever their scale, <i>Restoring Civil Societies</i> identifies models that analyze the social psychology of crises in order to devise ways of re-activating civic engagement and safeguarding civil society.</p> <p>Focusing on these positive interventions, the authors identify a number of key strategies, ranging from the simplicity and directness of bystander interventions to the volunteer armies mobilized in the wake of natural disasters. They include collective action organized to redress systemic inequalities, and the vital healing role played by truth commissions in Rwanda and elsewhere. <i>Restoring Civil Societies</i> fills the gap between basic research on social issues and translation into social policies and programs-an area which, in light of current economic and social unrest, is more important now than ever.</p>

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