title: The dangers of prejudice reduction interventions: empirical evidence from encounters between Jews and Arabs in Israel.
abstract: This commentary focuses on Dixon et al.'s discussion on the dangers of employing prejudice-reduction interventions that seek to promote intergroup harmony in historically unequal societies. Specifically, it illustrates these dangers by discussing my work in Israel (now mentioned in Dixon et al.'s note 6) on the processes and practices through which reconciliation-aimed encounters between Jews and Arabs mitigate sociopolitical change.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. msifat@mscc.huji.ac.il
authors.forename: Ifat
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Maoz
mesh_terms: D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011287:Prejudice; D012933:Social Identification