注重和平心理学的机构有,例如,美国的和平、冲突和暴力研究社团(the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence)(美国心理学协会和平心理学分部——48分部)和华盛顿特區的非政府机构社会责任心理学家协会 (Psychologists for Social Responsibility);[6]德国的Friedenspsychologie论坛;[7]澳大利亚心理学社团的名叫和平心理学家(Psychologists for Peace)的兴趣团队。在国际上,有和平心理学研究的委员会,也有联系德国、芬兰、美国、澳大利亚、哥斯达黎加、印度和意大利等国家的社会责任心理学家国际互动网。[8]
不同的关于无暴力解决冲突的和平心理学策略(冲突的降低,冲突的解决,冲突的化解)都有讨论过。人们可以区分官方层次的策略(例如,对降低紧张局势的测量和建立信任比如查理斯·E·歐斯古德(Charles E. Osgood)的‘Graduated and Reciprocated Initiatives in Tension Reduction’[GRIT],谈判,调解),非官方外交手段的方式(问题解决互动研究会),以及公民社会层面策略(例如,和平记者,社会团体之间的联络)的不同。
即使暴力已经被停止了或者和平条约已经达成,为了防止冲突重新升级的危险,就要求物质的和经济的重建以及社会政治和心理学的介入。这些措施的目的在于抚平战争的心理创伤,建立信任,创造一个共同的集体的记忆,承认过去的错误行为,达成和解,并/或宽容。[27]例子有创伤治疗和真相与和解委员会(Truth and Reconciliation Commissions)。
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