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This book is intended both as supplementary reading for courses and as a practical guidebook for individuals and programs interested in reducing prejudice and improving intergroup relations. It provides the only comprehensive review and compilation of techniques of improving intergroup relations. There's a huge amount of literature on the causes and nature of prejudice, reflecting great interest in the topic, but the literature on prejudice reduction is more scattered, spread across a range of theoretical and applied sources. This book brings these literatures together with an emphasis on helping to elucidate what works and why.
Intergroup Dialogues
Intergroup Dialogues
Using intergroup dialogues to improve relations between groups is probably as old as language itself, but the systemic use of intergroup dialogues as a technique for improving intergroup relations is a relatively recent invention. Their use is now becoming increasingly widespread in educational, community, and international settings. These dialogues are meant to foster an understanding of issues of contention between groups and create a commitment to address these issues. Intergroup dialogues are not merely talk. They involve facilitated discussions in which people are encouraged to listen carefully to one another and, in the process, “to correctly understand the values and beliefs that inform another's worldview” (Dubois & Hutson, 1997, p. 12). This is serious talk that is expected to lead to social ...
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