Moral engagement can be deliberately fostered to reduce violent means endorsement

Evidence

Morality can also be fostered by restoring humanity to harmful conduct that has been freed from the restraints of moral self-sanctions. McAlister and his colleagues fostered moral reengagement as an alternative to resorting to violent means. They did so by peer modeling of prosocial solutions to conflicts and exposure to communications that unmasked the various self-exonerative methods of moral disengagement (McAlister, Ama, Barroso, Peters, & Kelder, 2000). Moral engagement reduced support of violent means, whereas boosting self-exonerative vindications raised endorsement of violent means. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 651

Categorization

• XREF: Reverse-direction mechanism for the vault’s band ladder: supports moral reengagement as an antidote to the disengagement that facilitates Islamophobic policy. — connects to: Atonement must let perpetrator groups retain a positive moral identity — Nurit Shnabel and Johannes Ullrich, Identity Needs in Intergroup Relations:…, 155; Bystander intervention must happen early to stop atrocity evolution — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 161; Images of distant suffering provoke moral engagement and military intervention. — Emanuele Castano, On the Perils of Glorifying the…, 15 (+2 more)
• SEED: Angle for a piece: the symmetrically manipulable off-switch — if self-exonerative narratives boost violent endorsement, interventions unmasking those narratives must be the policy corollary.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 651