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A sense of self-perceived collective victimhood in intractable conflicts

Bar-Tal, Daniel, Chernyak-Hai, Lily, Schori, Noa, Gundar, Ayelet·2009·International Review of the Red Cross
DOI 10.1017/s1816383109990221
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A sense of self-perceived collective victimhood emerges as a major theme in the ethos of conflict of societies involved in intractable conflict and is a fundamental part of the collective memory of the conflict. This sense is defined as a mindset shared by group members that results from a perceived intentional harm with severe consequences, inflicted on the collective by another group. This harm is viewed as undeserved, unjust and immoral, and one that the group could not prevent. The article analyses the nature of the self-perceived collective sense of victimhood in the conflict, its antecedents, the functions that it fulfils for the society and the consequences that result from this view.

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  • The stance of victimhood can be related to the victim's personality, and mere experience of the harmful event is not enough for the emergence of a sense of being a victim.

    “The latter condition adds crucial aspects to the definition, by pointing out that the stance of victimhood can be also related to the victim’s personality and that mere experience of the harmful event is not enough for the emergence of sense of being a victim.114”

    From <p>Pain and Evil: From Local Nociception to Misery Following Social Harm</p> (2020) · cites this paper as [114]

  • Victimhood describes lasting psychological states of mind involving beliefs, attitudes, emotions, and behavioral tendencies, resulting from direct or indirect experience of victimization and its maintenance in the personal repertoire.

    “It seems that victimhood describes some psychological lasting states of mind involving beliefs, attitudes, emotions, and behavioral tendencies: this results, on the one hand, from direct or indirect experience of victimization and, on the other hand, from its maintenance in the personal repertoire.114”

    From <p>Pain and Evil: From Local Nociception to Misery Following Social Harm</p> (2020) · cites this paper as [114]

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Authors
Bar-Tal, D., Chernyak-Hai, L., Schori, N., & Gundar, A.
Venue
International Review of the Red Cross
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2009-06
Volume
91
Issue
874
Pages
229-258
ISSN
  • 0020-8604 (ISSN-L)
  • 1816-3831
  • 1607-5889
DOI
10.1017/s1816383109990221
OpenAlex
W2063245982
Cited by
573
References
43
Citations by year
2026: 39 · 2025: 37 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 69 · 2021: 73 · 2020: 103 · 2019: 47 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 33 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 21 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 10
FWCI
23.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 175 d)
Locations
International Review of the Red Cross (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Memory, violence, and history
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Memory, History, Trauma, Identity
Keywords
collective victimhood, intractable conflict, collective memory, group identity

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