TY - BOOK ID - 6918798 TI - One for all : the logic of group conflict PY - 1997 SN - 0691048258 9786612457784 140082169X 1282457780 9780691048253 PB - Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social groups KW - Social conflict KW - 316.35 KW - #SBIB:327.5H20 KW - 316.45 KW - Association KW - Group dynamics KW - Groups, Social KW - Associations, institutions, etc. KW - Social participation KW - Class conflict KW - Class struggle KW - Conflict, Social KW - Social tensions KW - Interpersonal conflict KW - Social psychology KW - Sociology KW - Sociale groepen. Sociologie van de groep KW - Vredesonderzoek: algemeen KW - Sociale groepen. Groepsprocessen. Kleine groepen. Interactionele groepsdynamiek KW - 316.45 Sociale groepen. Groepsprocessen. Kleine groepen. Interactionele groepsdynamiek KW - 316.35 Sociale groepen. Sociologie van de groep KW - Social conflict. KW - Social groups -- Decision making. KW - Social groups. KW - Sociology & Social History KW - Social Sciences KW - Social Change UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6918798 AB - In a book that challenges the most widely held ideas of why individuals engage in collective conflict, Russell Hardin offers a timely, crucial explanation of group action in its most destructive forms. Contrary to those observers who attribute group violence to irrationality, primordial instinct, or complex psychology, Hardin uncovers a systematic exploitation of self-interest in the underpinnings of group identification and collective violence. Using examples from Mafia vendettas to ethnic violence in places such as Bosnia and Rwanda, he describes the social and economic circumstances that set this violence into motion. Hardin explains why hatred alone does not necessarily start wars but how leaders cultivate it to mobilize their people. He also reveals the thinking behind the preemptive strikes that contribute to much of the violence between groups, identifies the dangers of "particularist" communitarianism, and argues for government structures to prevent any ethnic or other group from having too much sway. Exploring conflict between groups such as Serbs and Croats, Hutu and Tutsi, Northern Irish Catholics and Protestants, Hardin vividly illustrates the danger that arises when individual and group interests merge. In these examples, groups of people have been governed by movements that managed to reflect their members' personal interests--mainly by striving for political and economic advances at the expense of other groups and by closing themselves off from society at large. The author concludes that we make a better and safer world if we design our social institutions to facilitate individual efforts to achieve personal goals than if we concentrate on the ethnic political makeup of our respective societies. ER -