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Winner of the 2013 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award.

Winner of the International Society of Political Psychology Alexander George Book Award.

Overcoming Evil identifies the root causes of genocide, violent conflict, and terrorism, informed by Ervin Staub's 30 years in the field. An understanding of these root causes is essential for mapping ways to move beyond violence. In this landmark volume, Staub lays out principles and practices to prevent violence, halt ongoing violence, and promote reconciliation to prevent the recurrence of violence. In analyzing violence, Staub considers difficult conditions of life, conflict, repression, culture, the institutions of society, individual and group psychology, the evolution of violence, and the behavior of witnesses or bystanders within and outside societies. To move beyond violence, it is necessary to humanize the other, to heal from past victimization, and develop cultures and institutions that help curb violence. The book considers how all this can be accomplished, and how caring values and moral courage for action can develop.

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"Professor Staub has long been one of the leading scholars on the origins of hatred and violence. This book is singularly important because it not only deepens his prior insights, but reflects practical efforts in prevention and reconciliation. He formulates central principles leading to intense violence between groups and clarifies alternative paths. He devotes serious attention to practices of violence prevention, including early prevention, and also practices of reconciliation after a violent disaster such as the Rwandan genocide. He applies a broad range of principles to specific situations in order to improve opportunities for nonviolent progress. This is an exceedingly valuable book."

-David A. Hamburg, President Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar, Weill Cornell Medical College


"In a fitting capstone to Ervin Staub's remarkable career, Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict, and Terrorism addresses the psychology of man's inhumanity to man. Leavened by his own personal experience and field work in countries ravaged by genocidal struggle, Staub's book covers the range of political violence, from terrorism to ethnic cleansing, exploring and illuminating the dark corners of man's psychology that permit ordinary people to commit such extraordinary evil. Not merely an academic exercise, the book provides pragmatic guidance for resolving the seemingly intractable conflicts that beset contemporary society."

- Jerrold M. Post, M.D., Director, Political Psychology Program, George Washington University, and author of The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to al-Qaeda


"The leading author on genocide has turned his analysis to address the question of how to prevent it. The work is deeply personal, analytically penetrating, and tactically broad. It deserves a wide readership, from those who make policy to those who are bystanders to unfolding events."

- I William Zartman, Jacob Blaustein Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University.


"Ervin Staub-the world's leading researcher of the human capacity for selfless good and mass evil-is the perfect person to help us transform closed fists into open arms. This culmination of his life's work, informed by his on-the-ground prevention and reconciliation work, is timely, personal, engaging, and profoundly significant."

- David G. Myers, Professor of Psychology, Hope College, and author of Social Psychology, 10th Edition


"Staub has done it. In a single volume, he has given us illuminating, multidisciplinary analysis of the causes of mass violence and terrorism, their impacts, and most important, the steps we can take collectively toward prevention. The extraordinary scope and depth of this book makes it essential reading for everyone who cares about peace and building a humane world."
- Michael Wessells, Professor, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Columbia University


"Overcoming Evil is a brilliant and original work on the sources of violence, the prevention of genocide, and reconciliation after genocide. Ervin Staub's work on reconciliation in Rwanda is unprecedented."
- Roger W. Smith, Professor Emeritus of Government, College of William and Mary


"Staub has written a superb book that has excellent scholarship and well-conceived practical suggestions for preventing massive intergroup violence and for developing reconciliation if it occurs. It is an extraordinary book of heart, as well as fine scholarship. I recommend it highly for all leaders and citizens who seek a more peaceful world, as well as for social scientists who wish to be informed of the best thinking in this area."
- Morton Deutsch, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University


"Ervin Staub's work on genocide is remarkable in its combination of thoughtful interpretation and hands-on observations of lasting effects and efforts at recovery."
- Robert Jay Lifton, Lecturer in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Author of The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocid


"Ervin Staub's magnum opus offers a penetrating, comprehensive analysis of one of mankind's most bedeviling problems, inter-group hostility and violence. Staub brilliantly explains the roots of this social evil, while offering a map out of this perennial predicament. Overcoming Evil is a deeply hopeful book that should be read by anyone who is concerned about humanity's future and how to prevent, react effectively to, and help people heal from this pernicious form of violence."
- Daniel Goleman, Author of Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than


"An expansive book with practical conclusions...(an) illustration of the social mind as both instrumental in violence and a tool for its prevention. Staub's analysis is multifaceted and presents a picture of human mass violence as influenced by interacting psychological, cultural, political, and historical factors...This work is suitable for both university students and lay readers." -- Fathali M. Moghaddam and Zachary Warren, PsycCRITIQUES


"In sum, this is a book to admire for its broad based scholarship and analysis of the origins of hated and mass violence. And just as admirable is Staub's vision that reconciliation, even between the most intractable enemies, is not only desirable, but possible. His example of personal involvment should go a long way towards inspiring others to participate in the process of healing and caring." -- Daphne Abeel, The Armenian Mirror-Spectator


About the Author:
Ervin Staub has taught at Harvard and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has studied the influences that lead caring, helping, altruism in adults and children, the origins of genocide and other mass violence, the prevention of violence between groups and reconciliation after violence. He published extensively on these topics. He has also worked in many real world settings, on projects ranging from reconciliation and the prevention of new violence in Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo, to reducing the use of unnecessary force by police, to creating caring classrooms.

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