TY - JOUR
T1 - Collective victimhood and support for joint political decision-making in conflict regions
T2 - The role of shared territorial ownership perceptions
AU - Storz, Nora
AU - Bilali, Rezarta
AU - Martinović, Borja
AU - Maloku, Edona
AU - Rosler, Nimrod
AU - Žeželj, Iris
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors. European Journal of Social Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2022/4
Y1 - 2022/4
N2 - In territorial interethnic conflicts people often claim exclusive land ownership for their ingroup. However, they can also view the ingroup and outgroup as entitled to the land. It is unknown what explains such shared ownership perceptions and how these in turn inform opinions about conflict resolution. We focused on different types of collective victimhood as precursors of shared ownership perceptions, and on joint decision-making as a political outcome. In the context of the Israeli–Palestinian and Kosovo disputes, using national samples of Jewish Israelis (N = 609, Study 1) and Albanians and Serbs (N = 995, Study 2), we found that inclusive victimhood was related to higher, and competitive victimhood to lower, shared ownership perceptions. Shared ownership was, in turn, related to more support for joint decision-making. Our findings highlight the importance of collective victimhood in explaining shared ownership perceptions, which consequently inform opinions about the political route to conflict resolution.
AB - In territorial interethnic conflicts people often claim exclusive land ownership for their ingroup. However, they can also view the ingroup and outgroup as entitled to the land. It is unknown what explains such shared ownership perceptions and how these in turn inform opinions about conflict resolution. We focused on different types of collective victimhood as precursors of shared ownership perceptions, and on joint decision-making as a political outcome. In the context of the Israeli–Palestinian and Kosovo disputes, using national samples of Jewish Israelis (N = 609, Study 1) and Albanians and Serbs (N = 995, Study 2), we found that inclusive victimhood was related to higher, and competitive victimhood to lower, shared ownership perceptions. Shared ownership was, in turn, related to more support for joint decision-making. Our findings highlight the importance of collective victimhood in explaining shared ownership perceptions, which consequently inform opinions about the political route to conflict resolution.
KW - Israeli-Palestinian conflict
KW - Kosovo
KW - collective victimhood
KW - conflict resolution
KW - shared territorial ownership
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U2 - 10.1002/ejsp.2831
DO - 10.1002/ejsp.2831
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85129773477
SN - 0046-2772
VL - 52
SP - 472
EP - 486
JO - European Journal of Social Psychology
JF - European Journal of Social Psychology
IS - 3
ER -