@article{2506edcab90b4b77a573eff16de474e9,
title = "Personal intergroup contact between different groups of ex-combatants and civilians: Evidence from a behavioural experiment in Rwanda",
abstract = "Although personal intergroup contact is known to predict positive intergroup outcomes, little is known about the kind of positive personal contact that reduces prejudice in real-world post-conflict societies. Using a behavioural experiment, the present study examined the effect of face-to-face personal contact between three groups of ex-combatants (national army, former national army and armed group) and civilians with disabilities in Rwanda. A total of 444 participants were randomly assigned to intergroup or intragroup pairs under high and low personalisation conditions, and their person preference, evaluative bias and impressions of contact partners were compared to those who had contact without personalisation. Between ex-combatants of the national army and civilians, low personalisation generally resulted in better intergroup outcomes than high personalisation or no personalisation. The trend is reversed for personalisation between the three groups of ex-combatants, who are former adversaries. Implications for personal contact in real-world post-conflict societies are discussed.",
keywords = "common identity, intergroup contact, person preference, personalisation, post-conflict society, reconciliation",
author = "Mayuko Onuki and Keitaro Aoyagi and Yoshito Takasaki",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to Norman Miller and Eri Komukai for providing feedback on earlier versions of this article. We thank our dear friend Floribert Bahoze for back‐translation as well as Kenn Ndirangu and research assistants at Incisive Africa for implementing the study together in the field. We are also grateful to the personnel at respective Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) departments and its Rwanda oversea office for coordinating and assisting the implementation of the study. We also thank Hideyuki Suzuki and Mizuki Kaneda for cleaning such complicated data. This research has been made possible through supports provided by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (25257106; 16K17303), JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development, and the Institute of Asia‐Pacific Studies, Waseda University. Any errors of interpretation are solely the authors{\textquoteright} responsibility. Funding Information: We are grateful to Norman Miller and Eri Komukai for providing feedback on earlier versions of this article. We thank our dear friend Floribert Bahoze for back-translation as well as Kenn Ndirangu and research assistants at Incisive Africa for implementing the study together in the field. We are also grateful to the personnel at respective Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) departments and its Rwanda oversea office for coordinating and assisting the implementation of the study. We also thank Hideyuki Suzuki and Mizuki Kaneda for cleaning such complicated data. This research has been made possible through supports provided by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (25257106; 16K17303), JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development, and the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University. Any errors of interpretation are solely the authors{\textquoteright} responsibility. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 The Authors. European Journal of Social Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.",
year = "2022",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1002/ejsp.2811",
language = "English",
volume = "52",
pages = "1--17",
journal = "European Journal of Social Psychology",
issn = "0046-2772",
publisher = "John Wiley and Sons Ltd",
number = "1",
}