Abstract
This chapter employs social psychological knowledge of group formation, development, and functioning as well as personal identification with the group to discuss development of the global community. To manage the urgent problems effectively that the people on planet Earth face [such as climate change, war, injustice, economic disruptions, disease pandemics, and the poor education of most of the planet’s children], it is urgent to form a cooperative global community. In forming such a community, problems and conflicts will emerge that will require constructive, cooperative, problem-solving negotiations if they are to be resolved effectively and harmoniously. We consider four such social psychological problems: the dilemma of the commons, closed-mindedness rather than open-mindedness, short time perspectives, and destructive processes of negotiation and conflict resolution. Finally, we consider nonviolent methods of influence to apply when the other is unwilling to engage in cooperative processes of negotiation and conflict resolution.
Keywords
- Social Identity
- Change Agent
- Time Perspective
- Global Community
- Social Entrepreneur
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This chapter is a revised version of a chapter entitled “A Framework for Thinking about Developing a Global Community,” which appeared in P.T. Coleman and M. Deutsch (eds.), Psychological Components of Sustainable Peace, Peace Psychology Book Series, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-3555-6_16, © Springer Science+ Business Media New York 2012.
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The authors have undertaken an initial change effort to inspire people of the world to learn about, take, and act upon this pledge. We are at the beginning of our efforts: gaining prominent and well-known people to endorse and act upon this pledge as a way to influence others to do so. This is one of myriad ways to support the development of a global community.
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Deutsch, M., Marcus, E.C., Brazaitis, S.J. (2015). Developing a Global Community: A Social Psychological Perspective. In: Galluccio, M. (eds) Handbook of International Negotiation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10687-8_24
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