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Mittwoch, 8. August 2012
Montag, 6. August 2012
Squabble - Streit
Einst lebten zwei Mönche über 40 Jahre zusammen und hatte nie einen Streit.
Nicht einziges mal.
Eines Tages sagte ein Mönch zum anderen:
"Glaubst du nicht, dass es an der Zeit ist, dass wir zumindest einmal einen Streit haben?"
"Sicher", antwortete der andere Mönch.
"Lass uns sofort beginnen. Worüber sollen wir streiten?"
"Über dieses Stück Brot vielleicht?" bot der erste Mönch an.
"OK, lass uns über dieses Brot streiten. Wie sollen wir vorgehen?" fragte der andere wieder.
"Dieses Brot ist meins, und gehört mir allein", sagte der erste Mönch.
"Oh ja? Nun Du kannst es behalten", sagte der zweite Mönch.
Sonntag, 5. August 2012
Samstag, 4. August 2012
Irak Krieg - Iraq war
"Die Vereinigten Staaten geben über 87 Milliarden USD aus,
um einen Krieg im Irak zu führen,
während die Vereinten Nationen schätzen,
dass wir für weniger als die Hälfte dieses Betrages
sauberes Wasser,
ausreichend Ernährung,
Sanitäreinrichtungen und
Grundschulbildung
für jede Person auf diesem Planeten
zur Verfügung stellen könnten."
Freitag, 3. August 2012
Donnerstag, 2. August 2012
When it's broken: fix it
"Wie haben Sie es geschafft 65 Jahre zusammenzubleiben???"
"Wir sind aus einer Zeit in der man, wenn etwas kaputt ist,
es repariert und nicht wegschmeisst."
Mittwoch, 1. August 2012
Du kannst den Menschen nicht zum Denken zwingen ...
"Du kannst einem Menschen Wissen beibringen,
aber Du kannst ihn nicht zum Denken zwingen."
Dienstag, 31. Juli 2012
This is not a bakery ... Das ist keine Zuckerbäckerei ...
"Hier ist keine Zuckerbäckerei.
Ich überziehe nichts mit Zuckerguß.
Wenn Du um meine Meinung fragst ...
dann bekommst Du sie.
Sei nicht sauer wenn das nicht das ist,
was Du hören wolltest."
Montag, 30. Juli 2012
Sonntag, 29. Juli 2012
Freitag, 27. Juli 2012
Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2012
Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2012
Montag, 23. Juli 2012
Dienstag, 17. Juli 2012
Lass die Vergangenheit los ...
"Release the past, Empower the present, Unleash the future!"
"Lasse die Vergangenheit los, Ermächtige die Gegenwart und befreie die Zukunft!"
~ A.Lakhani ~
Freitag, 12. Juni 2009
Research on forgiveness and social effects in Bosnia & Hercegovina
Quelle / Source (11. June 2009): http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/search?q=bosnia
Promoting forgiveness in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Across the world, whether it's the troubles of Northern Ireland or the tense situation in Israel and Palestine, forgiveness is often the greatest hurdle to achieving peace.
When two groups have each committed such terrible acts against each other, how can the cycle of resentment ever be broken?
Sabina Cehajic and colleagues examined this question in multi-ethnic Bosnia and Herzegovina, where, between 1992 and 1995, hundreds of thousands of Bosnian Muslims were raped and killed by predominantly Serb forces (many Serbs also lost their lives too).
Today, the country is composed of Bosnian Muslims, Serbs, Croats and other ethnic groups, and politics there is dominated by nationalistic parties representing the separate ethnic groups.
Cehajic and her team surveyed 180 Bosnian Muslims about their attitudes towards Bosnian Serbs in the wake of the earlier conflict. They found that Bosnian Muslims who had more Serb friends and who identified more with a sense of being "Bosnian", rather than "Bosnian Muslim" or "Bosniak", also tended to show more empathy for Serbs as a group, to be more trusting of Serbs, and to see Serbs as more varied - all of which predicted greater levels of forgiveness and more positive attitudes towards the Serbs.
This pattern is consistent with what's known as the "contact hypothesis" in social psychology, which states that more high quality contact between groups promotes intergroup reconciliation.
Cehajic's team said their findings have policy implications.
"One practical suggestion for restoration of damaged intergroup relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina could be the creation of a new constitution with centralized government," they said.
"Such a new unified political structure might promote both more frequent intergroup contact and the creation of a politically and psychologically meaningful common-ingroup identification [i.e. at the level of 'Bosnian']".
However, a key weakness of the study, which often undermines research in this field, is its cross-sectional design.
It's possible that the direction of causality between the observed variables flows in the other direction - perhaps it is forgiveness that leads to greater trust and empathy towards the outgroup, and thence to greater contact with them.
If so, we're back to square one: just how can we help foster that initial forgiveness?
_________________________________
Cehajic, S., Brown, R., Castano, E. (2008). Forgive and Forget? Antecedents and Consequences of Intergroup Forgiveness in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Political Psychology, 29(3), 351-367. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2008.00634.x
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Labels: Social
Promoting forgiveness in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Across the world, whether it's the troubles of Northern Ireland or the tense situation in Israel and Palestine, forgiveness is often the greatest hurdle to achieving peace.
When two groups have each committed such terrible acts against each other, how can the cycle of resentment ever be broken?
Sabina Cehajic and colleagues examined this question in multi-ethnic Bosnia and Herzegovina, where, between 1992 and 1995, hundreds of thousands of Bosnian Muslims were raped and killed by predominantly Serb forces (many Serbs also lost their lives too).
Today, the country is composed of Bosnian Muslims, Serbs, Croats and other ethnic groups, and politics there is dominated by nationalistic parties representing the separate ethnic groups.
Cehajic and her team surveyed 180 Bosnian Muslims about their attitudes towards Bosnian Serbs in the wake of the earlier conflict. They found that Bosnian Muslims who had more Serb friends and who identified more with a sense of being "Bosnian", rather than "Bosnian Muslim" or "Bosniak", also tended to show more empathy for Serbs as a group, to be more trusting of Serbs, and to see Serbs as more varied - all of which predicted greater levels of forgiveness and more positive attitudes towards the Serbs.
This pattern is consistent with what's known as the "contact hypothesis" in social psychology, which states that more high quality contact between groups promotes intergroup reconciliation.
Cehajic's team said their findings have policy implications.
"One practical suggestion for restoration of damaged intergroup relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina could be the creation of a new constitution with centralized government," they said.
"Such a new unified political structure might promote both more frequent intergroup contact and the creation of a politically and psychologically meaningful common-ingroup identification [i.e. at the level of 'Bosnian']".
However, a key weakness of the study, which often undermines research in this field, is its cross-sectional design.
It's possible that the direction of causality between the observed variables flows in the other direction - perhaps it is forgiveness that leads to greater trust and empathy towards the outgroup, and thence to greater contact with them.
If so, we're back to square one: just how can we help foster that initial forgiveness?
_________________________________
Cehajic, S., Brown, R., Castano, E. (2008). Forgive and Forget? Antecedents and Consequences of Intergroup Forgiveness in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Political Psychology, 29(3), 351-367. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2008.00634.x
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Labels: Social
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