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Social psychological issues in the human rights education: a social justice perspective

Human rights education can hardly neglect the insights from the social psychological analyses of the human rights representations and endorsement as well as of the factors that contribute or impede the respect for human rights in general as well as in specific contexts. This review will focus on the social psychology of justice contributions to the understanding and indeed promoting the endorsement of human rights, particularly the basic human rights principles such as universality and equality. The research and theorizing on the issues such as scope of justice and moral exclusion or deservingness perception and beliefs provide valuable insights into the processes that play an important role in tolerating human rights violations and may, therefore, have implications for reducing toleration of these violations as well as of the frequently observed gap between the abstract support and a discriminatory application of the basic human rights principles. The importance of justice concerns in the human rights endorsement and violations is in fact a major issue in the forthcoming 25th Annual Conference of the Croatian Psychologists Association (25. GKHP) „Psychology in the promotion and protection of human rights and social justice“, which will take place November 8-11, 2017 in Zadar, Croatia. This contribution to the symposium by a social justice researcher and the president of the 25. GKHP Programme Committee is aimed to provide a new and fruitful perspective on the relevant issues for the development of the curriculum on human rights education and fundamental rights awareness for psychologists.

human rights education ; psychology ; social justice

izlaganje u okviru simpozija "Human rigths education for psychologists"