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Dr. Karina V. Korostelina will be sharing from her new book which offers a novel framework for analyzing the ways in which seemingly minor insults between ethnic groups, nations, and other types of groups escalate to disproportionately violent behavior and political conflict. The book shows that insult can take many forms and has the power to destablize and redefine social and power hierarchies. Korostelina uses her model to explore recent conflicts including Pussy Riot in Russia, violence in Ukraine, declaration of war by North Korea, tensions around islands in SouthEast Asia, and to explain the complicated dynamics associated with them. The book concludes with practical suggestions for analyzing and resolving complex conflict situations.
Bring your lunch and join us!
Professor Korostelina is a social psychologist whose work focuses on social identity and identity-based conflicts, intergroup insult, the nation building processes, the relationships between Muslim and non-Muslim populations, role of history in conflict and post-conflict societies, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. She has been Fulbright New Century Scholar in 2002-2003, fellow at the Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in 2009, fellow at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1999-2000, and a visiting scholar at the Curriculum Resource Center of the Central European University in 2001. In 1993-2003 she was conducting research on ethnic and religious conflicts in Ukraine and served as a project director, mediator, and trainer for numerous conflict intervention programs. Since 2003 she is conducting research on identity-based conflicts in Armenia, Georgia, Morocco, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Ukraine.
The Brown Bag Lectures Showcase current projects or trends in the conflict analysis and resolution field and are presented by practitioners, faculty or students.