Small Group Research Implications for Peace Psychology and Conflict
As a basic setting for negotiation, the small group can be a crucible of collaboration, or a recipe for hostility. As research interest in small groups has evolved into a salient aspect of social psychology with a robust literature, studies in leadership,
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Herbert Blumberg • M. Valerie Kent A. Paul Hare • Martin F. Davies
Small Group Research Implications for Peace Psychology and Conflict Resolution
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Herbert Blumberg Department of Psychology Goldsmiths College University of London New Cross, London United Kingdom [email protected] A. Paul Hare Blaustein Institute for Desert Research Center for Desert Architecture Ben-Gurion University Negev Sede Boqer Campus 84990 Sede Boqer Israel [email protected]
M. Valerie Kent PO Box 16526 Nairobi Kenya [email protected] Martin F. Davies Department of Psychology Goldsmiths College University of London New Cross, London United Kingdom [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4614-0024-0 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-0025-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-0025-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011933669 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This volume is dedicated to the late A. Paul Hare, an eminent pioneer in small groups research, good-humored activist for conflict resolution and peace, and a mentor, colleague, and friend over a period of decades.
Preface
This volume is an independent companion to Small Group Research: Basic Issues (Blumberg et al. 2009). Together the two volumes attempt to provide thorough coverage of the small groups literature generally subsequent to our 1994 handbook (see below). As we said in the introduction to the 2009 volume on basic processes, small group research—studies of friendship, leadership, communication and the like— has grown in its breadth of appeal. Indeed it has come to occupy a substantial place in the literature not only of social psychology and sociology but also of a wide range of other fields and subfields including, among others, international relations, peace studies, business studies, sociology, psychotherapy, social work, and economics. The number of publications per annum—using consistent search strategies—has also grown apace. For some years we have been engaged in a quest to consolidate and share the gist of the published findings from social psychological and other research concerned wit
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