RE104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Realistic Conflict Theory, Moral Disengagement, Social Death
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Gen (race or tribe) + cide (to kill: coined at the end of ww2, specifically to describe holocaust. Most perpetrators of genocide are neither insane nor pathologically cruel. Othering is social distance between you and social victims. Excommunication (isolating them away from your own group) How do perpetrators define the target of their atrocities in such a way as to excommunicate them from a moral community? : us-them thinking, moral disengagement, blaming the victim. How did the robber"s cave experiment demonstrate us- them thinking. Robbers cave experiment: seperated the boys made two groups, which caused huge opposition that it effects non competitive actives later (tv, whenever groups form you see boundaries (kinships) Why do we divide the world into us/them: ethnocentrism your background is better than anyone elses, xenophobia- the fear of strangers or outsiders. !kung san of the kalahari their community real people others foreign . Xenophobia and ethnocentrism are not essential ingredients to war.
