Hate and Reconciliation: Approaches to Fostering Relationships between People and Peace

by Guido Cuyvers

Overview

Every day the media confront us with the many forms and excesses of hatred: cyber hatred, hate speech, bullying, hate groups, religiously inspired violence against dissidents and genocides.Hatred is human and current. It is an intrinsic part of what can happen between people. Personal experiences can lead people to hate someone. In society and even on a global level, hatred is again and again the motor of misunderstanding and often also of violence between people. Sometimes hate smoulders almost unconsciously; at other times he is furious and serves as a flag for serious violence. Hatred has many faces and seems omnipresent, that much is clear. The term "Erida complex," after the Greek goddess of hate, symbolizes the common and deeply rooted nature of hatred.Hatred is mighty as a destructive force. He knows how to motivate individuals and large groups of people to bring out the worst in themselves. He turns life among people into a desert. However, he cannot compete with Irene, the goddess and the symbol of peace. After all, he is unable to correct what went wrong. Nor is it a ground for building a peaceful society. At the same time, hatred is impotent against the positive freedom of people to transcend the negative. Those who are open to this will see many connecting, and therefore Irenean, initiatives. Hatred does not and should not have the last word. Opposite the well of Erida is the Irenese, the way to peace.After examining the nature of hate, this book focuses a wide-angle lens on its many faces, in individuals and groups as well as peoples. Facing the negativity of hatred, this book presents constructive approaches to fostering relationships between people and peace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592112517
Publisher:	Histria Books
Publication date:	11/29/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

During his professional life Guido Cuyvers was affiliated with a university college (Thomas More), department of social work, as a lecturer, researcher, and head of department. He studied criminology, sexology, and philosophy. He holds a doctorate in criminology with a study on the victims of crime. He is currently engaged in civil society, elderly policy, and research on the social participation of elderly people in society. As an author, he has published extensively on all kinds of social themes.

Table of Contents

Introduction: From Erida to Irene Chapter 1 Roots of hatred 1. Hate?????—a complex dynamic 1.1 Hate as a process 1.2 Combination of feelings, beliefs and behaviour 1.3 Individual and social 2. From hatred to crime 3. The Erida complex 4. The multiplex face of hate 4.1 Forms of everyday habits 4.2 Prejudices 4.3 Discrimination 4.4 Manifest violence 4.5 Genocide and eradication Chapter 2 Why people hate 1. Opinions 1.1 Prejudices 1.2 Ideologies 1.3 Stereotypes 2. Values and norms 3. Authoritarian personality 4. Self-esteem 5. Needs and self-interest 6. Unresolved conflicts 7. Hater typology Chapter 3 The road from Erida—at what price? 1. From emotion to behaviour: how hate works 1.1 Information processing 1.2 Step to violence 1.3 Hate in human evolution 2. Consequences for all involved 2.1 Impact on victims 2.2 Impact on target groups 2.3 Consequences for society 2.4 Consequences for haters Chapter 4 Small-scale hatred 1. Bullying in children and adolescents 1.1 Some facts 1.2 Stakeholders 1.3 Consequences of bullying 2. Bullying at work 2.1 Types of bullying at work 2.2 Some facts 2.3 Special bully: the psychopath 3. Cyberbullying 3.1 Other than just bullying 3.2 Forming cyberbullying 4. Homophobia and LGBT hatred 5. Discrimination, racism and xenophobia 5.1 Forms of discrimination 5.2 Fight against racism and xenophobia 6. Hate speech Chapter 5 Hate groups 1. White racism (White Supremacy) 1.1 General 1.2 Ku Klux Klan 1.3 Christian Identity (Identity Church) 1.4 World Church of the Creator (Creativity Movement) 2. Black racism (Black Panthers) 3. Neo-Nazi groups 3.1 Hammerskin 3.2 Stormfront 3.3 Blood & Honour 4. Skinheads 4.1 From mod to skinhead 4.2 Evolution of the skinhead movement Chapter 6 Large-scale, hate-driven conflicts 1. Armenian genocide 1.1 Armenian population’s situation 1.2 Genocide course 1.3 After World War I 2. Genocide in Rwanda 2.1 What preceded the genocide in Rwanda? 2.1.1 A piece of colonial history 2.1.2 The Hutu manifesto 2.1.3 Rebellion 2.2 Murders 2.3 Human toll 2.4 Role of propaganda 2.5 After the genocide 2.5.1 Tribunal 2.5.2 Gacaca 3. Genocide in Yugoslavia 3.1 What preceded the genocide in Yugoslavia? 3.2 Striving for independence 3.3 Ethnic cleansing and genocide 3.4 Victims 3.5 Persecution of war criminals 4. Genocide in Darfur 4.1 What preceded the genocide in Darfur? 4.2 Genocide 4.3 Continuation 5. Islamic State (IS) 5.1 Definition of terms 5.2 Origin of IS 5.3 Caliphate 5.4 Target 5.5 Resources 5.6 Impact 5.7 Role of hatred 5.8 Dabiq 6. Boko Haram 6.1 Origin 6.2 Further development 6.3 Objectives 6.4 Resistance 7. The Holocaust 7.1 Anti-Semitism 7.2 Nazi Germany 7.3 Eradication 7.4 Still a problem 8. Northern Irish conflict 8.1 Background 8.2 Uprising 8.3 Hate fuelled 8.4 Peace 9. Israeli–Palestinian conflict 9.1 Origin history 9.2 Progress of the conflict 9.3 Peace initiatives 10. Conflict in Myanmar 10.1 A piece of history 10.2 Destiny of the Rohingya 10.3 Backgrounds Chapter 7 Beyond hate—Irenese 1. Training as a beacon against hatred 1.1 Developing a critical attitude 1.2 Citizenship education 1.3 Peace education 2. Building a strong community 3. Prevention 4. Towards recovery 4.1 Restorative work with young people 4.2 Restorative justice 4.3 Truth commissions 5. Forgiveness and reconciliation 5.1 Forgiveness 5.2 Path of forgiveness 5.3 Recognition of the other and oneself as a condition for forgiveness 5.4 Finally List of figures Bibliography Register

Editorial Reviews

10/14/2022

Hatred is a human emotion that seems to be in abundant supply in the world. While human beings have always had conflict with one another, it seems now that the overall tone of these conflicts spirals into hate much quicker and easier than it ever did before. This is a very timely work that examines the nature of hate and what it can evolve into. Social sciences researcher Cuyvers (Psychopathologie) has created a narrative from an enormous group of primary and scholarly sources, which could, potentially become a textbook for further and future related studies. Perhaps the most valuable part of this title is a historical, vivid, yet easy-to-understand description of several of hate's worst and most painful manifestations today: armed conflict between nations and genocides. There are also explanations of some methods that have been used in recent conflicts, both personal and multinational, to successfully mediate and then maintain constructive relationships, and, ultimately and one hopes, peace. VERDICT Recommended for academic libraries, particularly those with psychology or criminology programs.—Steve Dixon

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