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Conflict and resilience in the experimental research
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Environmental crises, military conflicts, and pandemics are all complex situations and difficult challenges that humanity has faced throughout history. This means that over time humans may have developed strategies to cope with these unexpected and highly disruptive events in order to build a resilient society. The relationship between crises of various kinds and individual and group resilience is not only ambiguous, but also not well understood, and the relationship between conflict and resilience needs to be further explored. Moreover, group and individual resilience is built in many ways that do not fit the whole of society and its institutions. Maintaining and strengthening relationships and ties within the group contributes to individual resilience, but this strengthening of intra-group ties often works to the detriment of individuals outside the group or to the detriment of established societal institutions. Examples include many historical and contemporary religious groups and movements that are in high social and ideological tension and conflict with their environment but can manage various crises well and strengthen intragroup ties. An example of this may be groups and communities centered around strongly defined conspiracies. The resilience of a society is closely linked to its resistance to polarising views, currently represented by the legitimisation of conspiratorial discourse and rhetoric. These make negotiation and the sharing of common positions impossible, leading to increased tension and polarization that not only reduces the capacity to face disruptive change, but also creates and reinforces a sense of insecurity and threat to which the individual and the group continue to respond. In my talk, I would like to present an emerging research project that explores the possibilities of operationalising conflict and disruption situations and studying them in controlled as well as natural and field settings in the context of experimental research to understand individual and group mechanisms. |
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