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PROF. ERVIN STAUB TO SPEAK AT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE COMMEMORATION EVENT
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 20, 2012 - 18:12 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Tufts University, the Darakjian-Jafarian chair
in Armenian History, the Department of History and the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research (supported by the
Ethel Jafarian Duffet Fund) will sponsor the annual Commemoration
of the Armenian Genocide in Goddard Chapel on April 11, featuring
a lecture by Professor Ervin Staub, entitled "Overcoming Evil:
Preventing Genocide and Creating Peaceful Societies."
According to wickedlocal.com, Staub will be introduced by Ina
Baghdiantz McCabe, professor of history and Darakjian Jafarian,
chair of Armenian History at Tufts University.
A reception and book signing will follow in the Coolidge Room in
nearby Ballou Hall. Staub is professor emeritus and founding director
of the doctoral program in the psychology of peace and violence at
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
He received his Ph.D. from Stanford, and has taught at Harvard. He
has studied the roots of altruism, the origins of genocide, violent
conflict, terrorism and their prevention, psychological recovery
and reconciliation.
His books include the two-volume "Positive Social Behavior and
Morality;" "The Roots of Evil: the Origins of Genocide and Other
Group Violence;" "The Psychology of Good and Evil: Why Children,
Adults and Groups Help and Harm Others;" and "Overcoming Evil:
Genocide, Violent Conflict and Terrorism (2011)."
A forthcoming book is "The Roots of Goodness: The Development of
Inclusive Caring, Moral Courage, Altruism Born of Suffering and
Active Bystandership."
Staub is past president of the International Society for Political
Psychology and of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict
and Violence. He has conducted many projects in field settings,
from promoting altruism in children to seminars/trainings and
educational radio projects in Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo to
promote psychological recovery and reconciliation, to training active
bystanders in schools to prevent harmful behavior by students.
He received awards for life-long contributions to peace psychology, for
distinguished contributions to political psychology, for distinguished
scholarly and practical contributions to social justice and for work
on international and intercultural relations.
"Overcoming Evil" describes the origins or influences leading to
genocide, violent conflict and terrorism. It identifies principles
and practices of prevention, and of reconciliation between groups
after violence, or before violence thereby to prevent violence.
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 20, 2012 - 18:12 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Tufts University, the Darakjian-Jafarian chair
in Armenian History, the Department of History and the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research (supported by the
Ethel Jafarian Duffet Fund) will sponsor the annual Commemoration
of the Armenian Genocide in Goddard Chapel on April 11, featuring
a lecture by Professor Ervin Staub, entitled "Overcoming Evil:
Preventing Genocide and Creating Peaceful Societies."
According to wickedlocal.com, Staub will be introduced by Ina
Baghdiantz McCabe, professor of history and Darakjian Jafarian,
chair of Armenian History at Tufts University.
A reception and book signing will follow in the Coolidge Room in
nearby Ballou Hall. Staub is professor emeritus and founding director
of the doctoral program in the psychology of peace and violence at
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
He received his Ph.D. from Stanford, and has taught at Harvard. He
has studied the roots of altruism, the origins of genocide, violent
conflict, terrorism and their prevention, psychological recovery
and reconciliation.
His books include the two-volume "Positive Social Behavior and
Morality;" "The Roots of Evil: the Origins of Genocide and Other
Group Violence;" "The Psychology of Good and Evil: Why Children,
Adults and Groups Help and Harm Others;" and "Overcoming Evil:
Genocide, Violent Conflict and Terrorism (2011)."
A forthcoming book is "The Roots of Goodness: The Development of
Inclusive Caring, Moral Courage, Altruism Born of Suffering and
Active Bystandership."
Staub is past president of the International Society for Political
Psychology and of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict
and Violence. He has conducted many projects in field settings,
from promoting altruism in children to seminars/trainings and
educational radio projects in Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo to
promote psychological recovery and reconciliation, to training active
bystanders in schools to prevent harmful behavior by students.
He received awards for life-long contributions to peace psychology, for
distinguished contributions to political psychology, for distinguished
scholarly and practical contributions to social justice and for work
on international and intercultural relations.
"Overcoming Evil" describes the origins or influences leading to
genocide, violent conflict and terrorism. It identifies principles
and practices of prevention, and of reconciliation between groups
after violence, or before violence thereby to prevent violence.