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What is Contact Hypothesis

Chapter 18
Role and Impact of Tourism in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
The proposition developed by Gordon Allport in 1954 arguing that positive intergroup contact can reduce prejudice across members of different identity-based groups, and this can occur under four optimal conditions: equal status, support by a social/institutional authority, intergroup cooperation, and a common goal.
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The Role of Visiting Professionals in Peacebuilding
Katerina Antoniou (University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5053-3.ch018
Abstract
Seeking to inform the peace-through-tourism scholarly debate, this chapter revisits this complex relationship from the angle of peacebuilding professionals. International peacebuilding settings habitually welcome peace professionals as visiting contributors, consultants, and freelancers. These visiting peacebuilders are characterised by a form of geographical hybridity that identifies them as a distinct audience in international peacebuilding and a niche audience of international travellers. In order to examine their role and contribution in international peacebuilding, the present study employs a qualitative methodological approach that combines historical narrative and field interviews to the case of the Cyprus peacebuilding discourse. This chapter argues that visiting peacebuilders have a significant role in formulating optimal encounters between peacebuilder audiences and in increasing the effectiveness of international peacebuilding projects.
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Psychology Applied to Prevention and Detection of Human Trafficking
Contact between two groups can promote tolerance and acceptance, but only under certain conditions, such as equal status among groups and common goals.
Published in Chapter: Psychology Applied to Prevention and Detection of Human Trafficking; From: Paths to the Prevention and Detection of Human Trafficking
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