Journal of Social Issues articles from June 2004

Journal of Social Issues archives from June 2004

Introduction to improving Arab-Jewish relations in Israel: Theory and practice in coexistence educational programs.
June 22, 2004... Coexistence is the word used in Israel to signify the peaceful existence of two peoples-Jewish and Arab-living side-by-side within Israel. The term is filled with political meaning and has been defined and interpreted differently at various...

Nature, rationale, and effectiveness of education for coexistence.
June 22, 2004... Within the realm of intergroup relations, different concepts were offered to describe positively valued relations between groups. Among them are concepts like tolerance, multiculturalism, peace, reconciliation, and coexistence. In essence,...

A narrative-based view of coexistence education.
June 22, 2004... The intractable Jewish-Arab conflict, like other such conflicts, entails two major aspects: a sociopolitical and a sociopsychological aspect (e.g., Fisher, 1997). The sociopolitical aspect pertains to issues of land; self-governance;...

Storytelling as a way to work through intractable conflicts: the German-Jewish experience and its relevance to the Palestinian-Israeli context.
June 22, 2004... The major aim of this article is to demonstrate how storytelling can be used to work through intractable conflicts in intergroup activities. We begin by defining the concept of working-through, then widening it to apply to traumatic social...

Coping with the Jewish-Arab conflict: a comparison among three models.
June 22, 2004... Conflicts and tension among ethnic, racial, and religious groups have been a source of deep concern for many nations worldwide (Weiner, 1998). The nature of the relations between groups determines the nature of their mutual attitudes....

Planned encounters between Jewish and Palestinian Israelis: a social-psychological perspective.
June 22, 2004... Planned group encounters between Jewish and Palestinian Israelis have been the object of considerable attention by researchers. Some have focused on the empirical study of variables involved in the encounter, such as prejudice (Bizman, 1978)...

Promoting coexistence by means of conflict education: the MACBE model.
June 22, 2004... This article presents a conflict education program designed to alleviate tensions and restore relationships among adversaries, who have experienced a protracted and seemingly intractable intergroup conflict. The Palestinian-Jewish conflict...

Existence and coexistence in acre: the power of educational activism.
June 22, 2004... A community model of systemic change is presented in this article. This model was used in Acre, a mixed Arab-Jewish city in Israel. First, the background of the city will be described, followed by a description of action and research in three...

The Jewish-Palestinian encounter in a time of crisis.
June 22, 2004... The October 2001 uprisings, or "Intifadat al-Aksa," have deepened the rift between Jews and Palestinians in Israel making it more difficult than ever for those of us working in the field of Jewish-Arab encounters. The very concept of...

Arab-Jewish bilingual coeducation in Israel: a long-term approach to intergroup conflict resolution.
June 22, 2004... There is a rather long history of the attempts through intergroup encounters to partially overcome intergroup conflicts. Psychological premises have, in one way or another, guided, for the most part, all this activity (for a review see...

Education for coexistence and Arab-Jewish encounters in Israel: potential and challenges.
June 22, 2004... Since the early 1990s, the impact and nature of Arab-Jewish educational programs in Israel have generated a great deal of interest among academics, politicians, and the general public (Abu-Nimer, 1999; Bar & Bargal, 1995; Bargal & Bar, 1992;...

Culturally sensitive education: adapting self-oriented assertiveness training to collective minorities.
June 22, 2004... Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel (PACI) today make up about 18% of the country's total population. From its inception in 1948, however, the state of Israel has treated them as foster citizens. Large-scale confiscation of their lands,...

Coexistence is in the eye of the beholder: evaluating intergroup encounter interventions between Jews and Arabs in Israel.
June 22, 2004... This article presents a paradigm for evaluating intergroup contact interventions that focuses on symmetry or equality in the interactions between the two groups in these encounters This paradigm is applied here to evaluate a sample of 47...