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Inter-Group Conflict

Inter-Group Conflict. Presented by: Corina Popa Nathan Thiel Wenona Scott Zhiwei Wu. INTERGROUP CONFLICT. A circumstance in which groups take antagonistic actions toward one another to control some outcome important to each.

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Inter-Group Conflict

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  1. Inter-Group Conflict Presented by: Corina Popa Nathan Thiel Wenona Scott Zhiwei Wu

  2. INTERGROUP CONFLICT • A circumstance in which groups take antagonistic actions toward one another to control some outcome important to each. • An overt expression of tensions between the goals or concerns of one party and those of another.

  3. Sources of Intergroup Conflict • Competing Goals • Competition for Resources • Cultural Differences • Power Discrepancies • Assimilation Versus Preservation of Micro-Cultural Identity

  4. Examples ?

  5. South Africa Highest inequality of wealth distribution in the world: 20% of the population owning 75% of the wealth

  6. South Africa Apartheid • History • Stakeholders • Manifestations

  7. South Africa History • Portuguese, Dutch, British since 1652 • Apartheid - 1948 -1994 • Racial Segregation • Separate but Equal • Reservations or “Homelands” • No Vote

  8. South Africa History • African National Congress (ANC) • Under ground resistance • Nelson Mandela imprisoned • US & UK economic pressure 1980’s • Botha resigns 1989

  9. South Africa History

  10. Stakeholders • White • Non-White • Black South Africans • Indians • Coloured • Truth & Reconciliation Commission • Bilateral Conflict • Apartheid vs ANC

  11. Manifestations ? 121 nooses recall political prisoners hanged during apartheid In cages, blow-ups of the hated “passbooks”

  12. Conflict Management Strategy • Moment for Decision • Amnesia • Criminal Trials • Negotiated Restitution and Compensation • Political re-education • Truth Commission

  13. Conflict Management Strategy • The Decision • Truth & Reconciliation Commission • Reasons • Collective Emotion - Chosen Trauma • Collective Identity • Collective Healing

  14. Collective Emotion • Chosen Trauma • Failure to Mourn • Collective Regression

  15. Identity Theory • Individual Identity “An abiding sense of the self and of the relationship of the self to the world. It is a system of beliefs or a way of construing the world that makes life predictable rather than random.” (Northrup) • Collective identityIdentification with a particular culture, class, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, regional affiliation, etc. and with the narratives / stories internalized in that group’s experience

  16. Collective Healing • Expose Guilt • Public Record of Truth • Provide Acknowledgement • Dismantle Old Institutions • Deterrent of Further Human Rights Violations

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