Empathy is an invaluable natural resource for conflict transformation. With empathy, we can build a better society because empathy enables human beings to appreciate other people’s perspective and respond to other people’s thoughts and feelings with an appropriate emotion. Empathy serves as an inhibitor of aggression and conflict, a catalyst of prosocial behavior, and has the potential to build sustainable peace between communities in conflict.
This paper discusses some key factors that contribute to empathy in order to better understand its important role in conflict transformation and peace building.
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This paper discusses some key factors that contribute to empathy in order to better understand its important role in conflict transformation and peace building.
To download and read the full paper, available in English, Arabic and Hebrew, please click on the links below:
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