Human Rights Program and Human Rights Project Present
Hate and Otherizing: The Psychology of Perpetrator Behavior
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Olin Humanities, Room 101
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Dinner to follow, RSVP required. Contact us at [email protected]
Dr. James Waller is the author of Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing (Oxford University Press), and teaches at Keene State College. A social psychologist, Dr. Waller grew up in Atlanta at the height of the Civil Rights movement and, even as a child, questioned the social divisions he saw in the society around him. That questioning – and his desire to see people treated fairly – naturally formed the basis for his interest in intergroup conflict and relations – specifically race relations, which led to his graduate work in social psychology at the University of Kentucky. “I”m interested in how people get along and, too often, why they don”t get along,” he explained. “Why do differences in race, culture, class, or religion often cause such conflict?”In the summer of 2018, Britt Shacham spent the summer interning with Women Wage Peace in Tel Aviv, and Artun Ak worked with the Montana Human Rights Network in Helena, Montana. They will present summaries of the specific advocacy campaigns they worked on, and offer reflections on how their NGOs address the issue of hate and “otherizing” in the work they do.
For more information, call 845-758-7127, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://hrp.bard.edu/.
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 101