Dear ICRN members and friends, As the current chair of the ‘International Contact Research Network’ and on behalf of its executive, I write to make you aware and praise the publishing by Bloomberg’s Katherine Griffiths of a compelling, detailed, evidence-based, cross-validated, multi-source account of endemic and protracted sexual harassment and power exploitation of students and young colleagues by well-known Miles Hewstone and several other male professors at Oxford University.
Join us for our next ICRN Colloquium featuring Dr. Negusu Aklilu, who will present Building peace before the polls: Political party dialogues to prevent electoral violence in Ethiopia.
Abstract: I would like to showcase a closed pre-election political dialogue we conducted in 2021, informed by intergroup contact theory and associated methodologies to address political concerns and associated emotional phenomena.
We’re excited to share an upcoming event from the Living Library in the Netherlands. On December 11, they will host an online Living Library session, followed by a symposium discussing new findings on the impact of the Living Library on both disadvantaged and advantaged groups, presented by Afreen, Julia and Fani.
We’re thrilled to announce that ICRN and the Hamburg EASP-sponsored meeting group on Advances in Intergroup Contact will be joining forces to host a joint satellite meeting on and for intergroup contact!
This meeting will take place right after the EASP General Meeting (July 2026) — making it easy to attend both events.
We are excited to share that we have a new round of wonderful speakers lined up for a brand-new round of the ICRN colloquium! This includes a new section dedicated to the wishes and needs of our early postgraduate researcher community! While we are busy getting a few last details organised before we release the full list of speakers and schedule, we would like to announce that Prof.
We invite conceptual and empirical contributions from all disciplines represented in the broad field of peace psychology and neighboring disciplines outside psychology, scholars at different career stages, and others situated in peace psychology more broadly.
Submission Deadline: 22 April 2025
Location: Constructor University Bremen, Germany
Travel Stipends: Limited support available for participants from low- and middle-income countries (contact organizers early).
We invite you to participate in an exciting international meeting – Peacebuilding through Conflict Transformation: Intraindividual, Interpersonal, Intergroup, and Global Processes – that will be held June 20-22, 2025 in Nonh Chock, Bangkok, Thailand. The conference will be hosted by the International Institute for Peace and Development Studies and limited in size (50 participants or less).
The ICRN will start a monthly Contact Colloquium from the 18th of October, where we will hear from leading researchers on intergroup contact and related fields and get a chance to discuss with them. The sessions are open to all; the schedule and registration links are now available here.
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🌟 We just completed the inaugural summit of the new international Contact Research Network - thanks to the amazing colleagues who spent the last 2 days with us in London at Birkbeck!🌟
Our conversations highlighted some priorities and opportunities for future research👇 💡Contact interventions can promote understanding in schools (Lindsey), at work (Libby) and in conflict situations (Orkun), and reduce political polarisation (Michèle).