The Socio-Psychological "Infrastructure" of Conflict in Croatian, Bosniak and Serbian History Textbooks - Comparing 1996 to 2017
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Ivanović, JovanPopović, Isidora
Miletić, Dragana
Žeželj, Iris
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Videnović, MarinaStepanović Ilić, Ivana
Simić, Nataša
Rajić, Milana
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The so-called "socio-psychological infrastructure of conflict"
(SPIC, Bar-Tal, 2007), as a shared cognitive-affective
repertoire, psychologically prepares groups for participation
in the conflict. The same repertoire, however, poses an
obstacle for reconciliation after its resolution. Relying on
SPIC as an analytical framework, we compared Croatian,
Bosniak and Serbian elementary school history textbooks
published immediately after the war (1996) and twenty years
after (2017). First, we sampled the textbooks, choosing the
most widely used ones in each period. In selected textbooks,
we identified chapters that mention relations among three
ethnicities. We proceeded to split them into paragraphs as
units of analysis (N=945). Two independent coders classified
each paragraph according to nine categories. Results showed
that 1/3 up to more than 1/2 of all the selected paragraphs
were indicative of SPIC. Contrary to our expectations, we did
not observe a significant decrease ...in SPIC in post-war
textbooks, even when we separately analyzed only the
categories identified as key obstacles towards reconciliation.
We discuss how SPIC integrated into national historical
narratives across ethnicities as its core element and why the
societies need to enhance their effort towards developing
socio-psychological foundations of peace.
Keywords:
history textbooks / intergroup relations / socio-psychological infrastructure of conflict / reconciliation / yugoslav conflictSource:
Proceedings of the XXVI Empirical Studies in Psychology, 2020, 120-123Publisher:
- Institute of Psychology
- Laboratory for Experimental Psychology
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Psihologija / PsychologyTY - CONF AU - Ivanović, Jovan AU - Popović, Isidora AU - Miletić, Dragana AU - Žeželj, Iris PY - 2020 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4932 AB - The so-called "socio-psychological infrastructure of conflict" (SPIC, Bar-Tal, 2007), as a shared cognitive-affective repertoire, psychologically prepares groups for participation in the conflict. The same repertoire, however, poses an obstacle for reconciliation after its resolution. Relying on SPIC as an analytical framework, we compared Croatian, Bosniak and Serbian elementary school history textbooks published immediately after the war (1996) and twenty years after (2017). First, we sampled the textbooks, choosing the most widely used ones in each period. In selected textbooks, we identified chapters that mention relations among three ethnicities. We proceeded to split them into paragraphs as units of analysis (N=945). Two independent coders classified each paragraph according to nine categories. Results showed that 1/3 up to more than 1/2 of all the selected paragraphs were indicative of SPIC. Contrary to our expectations, we did not observe a significant decrease in SPIC in post-war textbooks, even when we separately analyzed only the categories identified as key obstacles towards reconciliation. We discuss how SPIC integrated into national historical narratives across ethnicities as its core element and why the societies need to enhance their effort towards developing socio-psychological foundations of peace. PB - Institute of Psychology PB - Laboratory for Experimental Psychology C3 - Proceedings of the XXVI Empirical Studies in Psychology T1 - The Socio-Psychological "Infrastructure" of Conflict in Croatian, Bosniak and Serbian History Textbooks - Comparing 1996 to 2017 EP - 123 SP - 120 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4932 ER -
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Ivanović, J., Popović, I., Miletić, D.,& Žeželj, I.. (2020). The Socio-Psychological "Infrastructure" of Conflict in Croatian, Bosniak and Serbian History Textbooks - Comparing 1996 to 2017. in Proceedings of the XXVI Empirical Studies in Psychology Institute of Psychology., 120-123. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4932
Ivanović J, Popović I, Miletić D, Žeželj I. The Socio-Psychological "Infrastructure" of Conflict in Croatian, Bosniak and Serbian History Textbooks - Comparing 1996 to 2017. in Proceedings of the XXVI Empirical Studies in Psychology. 2020;:120-123. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4932 .
Ivanović, Jovan, Popović, Isidora, Miletić, Dragana, Žeželj, Iris, "The Socio-Psychological "Infrastructure" of Conflict in Croatian, Bosniak and Serbian History Textbooks - Comparing 1996 to 2017" in Proceedings of the XXVI Empirical Studies in Psychology (2020):120-123, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_reff_4932 .