Long-Term Effects of Peace Workshops in Protracted Conflicts

Deepak Malhotra and Sumanasiri Liyanage
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Deepak Malhotra: Harvard Business School
Sumanasiri Liyanage: Department of Economics University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2005, vol. 49, issue 6, 908-924

Abstract: The current study evaluates the efficacy of an intensive four-day contact intervention (a peace workshop) organized in Sri Lanka and represents an initial step toward understanding the long-term impact of such interventions on attitudes and behaviors in the context of protracted ethnic conflict. Compared with two control groups, the participant group showed greater empathy toward members of the “other†ethnicity, even one year after participation in the peace workshops. Consistent with the attitudinal data on empathy, participants donated more money to help poor children of the “other†ethnicity than did nonparticipants. Implications are discussed.

Keywords: contact hypothesis; peace; protracted conflict; Sri Lanka; empathy; evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/0022002705281153

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