Transitioning to Peace

Wilson López López (Ph.D.) is a Professor at the Pontifical Xavierian University and leads the research group on social ties and culture of peace. López López is Editor of Universitas Psychologica and has published over 100 journal articles, in addition to books and book chapters. As a researcher, he has carried out various studies on mass media and conflict, forgiveness, and legal issues. López López founded and currently is the Permanent Secretary for Latin America of the Iberoamerican Feredation of Psychology Association (FIAP), President Elect of the Political Psychology Division of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), and on the boards of the Global Network of Psychologists of Human Rights and the International Network for Peace Psychology, among other leadership positions. In 2017, he was given the Interamerican Society of Psychology Award. His most recent co-edited volume, published with APA, is Political Psychology in Latin America. Laura K. Taylor (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor at University College Dublin and Reader at Queen’s University Belfast and leads the Helping Kids! lab. Her research on the impact of political violence on young people and their communities has led to the Developmental Peacebuilding Model. She has published a book and over 60 journal articles in top psychology, as well as interdisciplinary peace and research methods journals, mostly focused on conflict-affected and LMICs countries. Taylor is the Editor of the APA journal, Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, and serves on the Governing Council of the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP), British Psychological Society (BPS) Social Psychology Committee, International Network of Peace Psychology (INPP), and represents the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) to the International Consortium of Developmental Science Societies (ICDSS). In 2018, Taylor was awarded the Ed Cairns Early Career Award from APA’s Division 48 on Peace Psychology.

• Chapter 1. Transitioning to peace: Contributions of peace psychology around the world.- SECTION 1. Transitional justice processes in path toward peace.- Chapter 2. Recognition, reparation, justice, and memory: Chile 1990-2020.- Chapter 3. Truth commissions: Individual and societal effects.- Chapter 4. Citizens’ views on amnesties, truth commissions, and intergroup forgiveness by Félix Neto, Lonzozou Kpanake.- Chapter 5. Forgiveness and reconciliation in post-conflict settings.- Chapter 6. Collective memory in the Basque country: The interplay between construals of victimhood and perpetratorship.- SECTION 2. Social movements and collective action promoting constructive transitions.- Chapter 7. The energizing role of contact and common ingroup identity on collective action among non-indigenous groups in Mexico and Chile.- Chapter 8. The Chilean transition: Achievements, shortcomings, and consequences for the current democracy.- Chapter 9. “Chanting at 1pm revolution time”: Collective action as communal coping in the Sudan revolution.- Chapter 10. Government discourse in the context of the transition to peace in Colombia.- SECTION 3. Community efforts for peace.- Chapter 11. The role of local associations of survivors and ex-detainees in the process of reconciliation in Rwanda: The case of Amataba y'Abunzubumwe.- Chapter 12. Psychosocial accompaniment of collective nonviolent resistance in an informal settlement.- Chapter 13. Psychosocial accompaniment and everyday peace in Colombia.- SECTION 4. Peace education and future-proofing peace transitions.- Chapter 14. Supporting peace by broadening “youth” and attending to their diverse development in transitional societies.- Chapter 15. Document-based historical role-playing as a tool to promote empathy and structural understanding in historical memory education.- Chapter 16. Helping Kids! Cross-cultural research on children’s prosocial behavior in societies transitioning to peace.- Chapter 17. Promoting social cohesion and peacebuilding through investment in early childhood development programs.