Beatrice S. Hasler
Young generations' hopelessness perpetuates long-term conflicts
Hasler, Beatrice S.; Leshem, Oded A.; Hasson, Yossi; Landau, Daniel H.; Krayem, Yara; Blatansky, Chen; Baratz, Guy; Friedman, Doron; Psaltis, Charis; Cakal, Huseyin; Cohen-Chen, Smadar; Halperin, Eran
Authors
Oded A. Leshem
Yossi Hasson
Daniel H. Landau
Yara Krayem
Chen Blatansky
Guy Baratz
Doron Friedman
Charis Psaltis
Huseyin Cakal h.cakal@keele.ac.uk
Smadar Cohen-Chen
Eran Halperin
Abstract
Transforming long-term conflicts into peaceful intergroup relations is one of the most difficult challenges for humanity. Such meaningful social changes are often driven by young people. But do young people living in contexts of long-term conflicts believe that change is even possible? In a series of six studies (N-total = 119,671) over two decades and across two unrelated intractable conflicts in Israel/Palestine and Cyprus, we found that younger (compared to older) generations from both respective rival groups have less hope for peace, and consequently less conciliatory attitudes. We also show that this gradual improvement of peace-promoting emotions and attitudes with increasing age can be experimentally accelerated in young people through a virtual reality-based aging simulation. These findings provide a new perspective on the fundamental question of why long-term conflicts are so difficult to resolve and highlight the importance of instilling hope in young generations to advance peace processes.
Citation
Hasler, B. S., Leshem, O. A., Hasson, Y., Landau, D. H., Krayem, Y., Blatansky, C., …Halperin, E. (2023). Young generations' hopelessness perpetuates long-term conflicts. Scientific reports, 13(1), Article 4926. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31667-9
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Mar 15, 2023 |
Publication Date | Mar 25, 2023 |
Deposit Date | Oct 13, 2023 |
Journal | SCIENTIFIC REPORTS |
Print ISSN | 2045-2322 |
Publisher | Nature Publishing Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 13 |
Issue | 1 |
Article Number | 4926 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31667-9 |
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