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A sense of self-perceived collective victimhood in intractable conflicts
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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 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 Pain and Evil: From Local Nociception to Misery Following Social Harm (2020) · cites this paper as [114]
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“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”
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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
- OpenAlex
- W2063245982
- Cited by
- 573
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 23.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Review of the Red Cross (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Memory, violence, and history
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Memory, History, Trauma, Identity
- Keywords
- collective victimhood, intractable conflict, collective memory, group identity
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