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Ms.
Catherine Byrne, (MA)
Cath is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Social Psychology Program.
She will graduate in August 2002.
Cath
graduated from the University of Notre Dame (South Bend,
Indiana) with a Masters degree in International Peace
Studies focusing in Conflict Resolution.
She
was born and grew up in South Africa. Her current research
addresses the "accounts" people give for committing
genocide and other acts of political violence.
She
is also very interested in the role of emotion processes.
She is a member of the International Association for
Conflict Management.
(http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~org/iacm)
Cath
recently received a fellowship to the prestigious Institute
of the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical
Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania where she
was in residence June-August 2001.
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"I
joined the HGPS Board because I want to be involved
with people who think and act globally - as well as
locally - to reduce racism, ethnocentrism, and dicrimination
and to strengthen efforts toward peace education, understanding,
and the resolution of conflicts."
Profession
Ph.D.
candidate Social Psychology
Recent
Publications
Monograph
(Numero Monografico) Munduate, L., Byrne, C. C., &
Dorado, M. A.(1996). El contexto psicosocial de la intervencion
de terceras partes [Psychosocial Dimensions of Third
Party Intervention]. Revista de Psicologia del Trabajo
y de las Organizaciones [Journal of Work and Organizational
Psychology], 12, (2/3), 127-147.
Book
Review
Byrne,
C. (2000). Philip Gourevitch. We wish to inform you
that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories
from Rwanda. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1998,
356pp.
Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Peace Studies Publication
"CenterNews" November 1999, 4(2).
Article
Byrne,
C. (1999). Reflections on studying at the Kroc Institute
for International Peace Studies. Center for Holocaust,
Genocide and Peace Studies Publication "Center
News". May 1999, 4(1).
Papers
Presented
"ANC and Inkatha." Presented at the Building
Peace Conference, University of Notre Dame, IN, on April
1, 1995. "The Role of Context in Accounts of Genocide
and Political Violence." Presented at the International
Association for Conflict Management Conference, St.
Louis, on June 20, 2000. "Genocide, Political Violence,
and the Neutralization of Evil." Presented at the
American Sociological Association Meeting, Washington
D.C., on August 12, 2000.
Contact
cbyrne@unr.edu
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