New article published: Reconciliation Versus Justice? It Depends on the Context: The Role of Symmetric and Asymmetric Violence in Predicting Postconflict Attitudes

In this article, led by Sandra Penić and now published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, we show with two different nationally representative surveys from the former Yugoslavia, and analyses of geo-coded data on violent conflict events, that the relationship between attitudes towards justice and reconciliation depends on the context: In communities more exposed to events of asymmetric violence, support for justice was linked to rejecting reconciliation. Conversely, in communities more exposed to symmetric violence, justice and reconciliation were perceived as compatible. The abstract is available here