Short description:

This book outlines the importance of collective resilience for groups who have faced challenging or threatening circumstances, such as war and political violence. 

Long description:

This book outlines the importance of collective resilience for groups who have faced challenging or threatening circumstances, such as war and political violence.

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 researchers studying 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 book critiques and extends our psychological understanding of resilience in conflict settings, using multiple methodological and epistemological approaches as well as interdisciplinary perspectives to understand conditions, underlying processes, and consequences of collective 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.

Table of Contents:

Collective resilience against political violence and repression: An introduction

Yasemin Gülsüm Acar, Blerina Këllezi & Sandra Penić

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, Alžběta 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 women?s 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 coşkan & 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 Penić, 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 Obradović

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 Penić