Segregation sustains conflict by institutionalizing mutual ignorance and suspicion

Evidence

However, planned intergroup contact schemes are still badly needed, because segregation sustains conflict by creating a social climate that fosters mutual ignorance and suspicion (Gallagher, 1995). — Miles Hewstone and Ed Cairns and Alberto Voci and Juergen Hamberger and Ulrike Niens, Intergroup Contact, Forgiveness, and…, 104

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Segregation yields real psychological safety benefits that complicate any push to integrate — Miles Hewstone and Ed Cairns and Alberto Voci and Juergen Hamberger and Ulrike Niens, Intergroup Contact, Forgiveness, and…, 104; Segregation functions as a stratifying distance mechanism, not just hostility expression; Geographic segregation itself compounds and makes visible the indignity of exclusion — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 75 (+7 more)

Related

• Segregation yields real psychological safety benefits that complicate any push to integrate (similarity 0.83)
• Spatial and epistemic segregation persisted despite intimate daily contact. (similarity 0.79)
• Geographic segregation itself compounds and makes visible the indignity of exclusion (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Geographic segregation itself compounds and makes visible the indignity of exclusion #expands (0.82) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 75
• Mere division into groups triggers intergroup discrimination even without conflict or self-interest #corroborates (0.80)
• Group isolation produces collective misperception and redirected violence against outsiders #expands (0.80)
• Segregation functions as a stratifying distance mechanism, not just hostility expression #qualifies (0.78)
• Even arbitrary group divisions trigger in-group bias and out-group derogation that harm cooperation #corroborates (0.78)
• Forced proximity under rules of separation sustains racial disengagement without contact being absent #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1829
• Spatial segregation frees subordinates to develop challenges to expropriation #complicates (0.72)
• Perceived rather than actual conflict drives intergroup prejudice #expands (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3317