Overview
The impact of historical genocide and mass violence on current social andpolitical issues cannot be underestimated, and it is shaped by psychologicalreactions among members of former victim, bystander, and perpetrator groups.The aim of this issue is to highlight the role that psychology has to play inexplaining intergroup relations, policies, and other social issues shaped bygenocidal pasts. This issue brings together perspectives from varioussubdisciplines in psychology (primarily social and clinical psychology) tobetter understand the consequences of genocide. The articles cover a wide rangeof methods, theoretical approaches, as well as geographical and sociopoliticalcontexts.
