Julia Chaitin
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Julia Chaitin received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel. She specializes in qualitative research, mainly biographical/narrative work combined with ethnography. Her work has three main foci: (1) the long-term psycho-social impact of extreme social trauma (such as the Holocaust, wars, immigration, refugee experiences) on victims and their descendants, and on Jewish Israelis; (2) joint Palestinian-Israeli psychosocial and educational research; and (3) issues of identity and ethnic belonging, among refugees, immigrants and young adults.
Dr. Chaitin was awarded two grants from Yad Vashem in Jerusalem for her work on her dissertation of the long-term psychosocial effects of the Holocaust on survivors and their families. In 2001-2002, Dr. Chaitin held the Lentz Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Peace and Conflict Resolution Research at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. In 2002-2003, she co-directed the Israeli Center for Qualitative Methodologies located at Ben Gurion University. Between 2000 and 2002, she was a head researcher and grant writer for the Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME). From 2003-2006, she was an assistant professor of conflict resolution and peace studies in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Nova Southeastern University. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Sapir College of the Negev in Israel and a program director in peace building at the Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development.
Primary Interests:
- Aggression, Conflict, Peace
- Applied Social Psychology
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Ethics and Morality
- Group Processes
- Helping, Prosocial Behavior
- Intergroup Relations
- Interpersonal Processes
- Political Psychology
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Self and Identity
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"You Need to Listen!" Israeli and Palestinian Narratives in Peacebuilding and Peace Obstruction
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40:46 "You Need to Listen!" Israeli and Palestinian Narratives in Peacebuilding and Peace Obstruction
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7:47 Psychological Reactions to Stress
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Books:
- Bar-On, D., & Chaitin, J. (2001). Parenthood and the Holocaust. Jerusalem, Israel: Yad Vashem.
- Chaitin, J. (2007). Inside-out: Personal and collective life in Israel and the Kibbutz. Lanham, MA: University Press of America.
Journal Articles:
- Chaitin, J. (2002). Issues and interpersonal values among three generations in families of Holocaust survivors. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 19(3), 385-408.
- Chaitin, J. (2003). Living with the past: Coping and value patterns in families of Holocaust survivors. Family Process, 42(2), 305-323.
- Chaitin, J. (2004). My life, my story, my identity. International Journal of Qualitative Methodologies, 3(4).
- Chaitin, J. (2004). The relevance and meaning of the Holocaust for children and grandchildren of survivors: The case of paradoxical relevance. Children in War. The International Journal of Evacuee and War Child Studies, 1(1), 79-89.
- Chaitin, J., & Bar-On, D. (2002). Emotional memories of family relationships during the Holocaust. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 4, 299-325.
- Chaitin, J., & Steinberg, S. (2008). "You should know better": Expressions of empathy and disregard among victims of massive social trauma. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 17(2), 197-226.
- Chaitin, J., Awwad, E., & Andriani, C. (2009). Belonging to the conflict: Collective identities among Israeli and Palestinian émigrés to the United States. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 15(2), 207-225.
- Chaitin, J., Obeidi, F., Adwan, S., & Bar-On, D. (2002). Environmental work and peace work: The Palestinian-Israeli case. Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, 9(2), 64-94.
- Kacen, L., & Chaitin, J. (June 2006). “The times they are a changin'”: Undertaking qualitative research in ambiguous, conflictual and changing contexts. The Qualitative Report, 11(2).
- Litvak-Hirsch, T., Bar-On, D., & Chaitin, J. (2003). Whose house is this? Dilemmas of identity construction in the Israeli-Palestinian context. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 9(2), 127-148.
- Sawada, A., Chaitin, J., & Bar-On, D. (2004). Surviving Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Experiences and psychosocial meanings. Psychiatry, 67(1), 43-60.
Other Publications:
- Chaitin, J. (2004). Narratives and story-telling. Intractable Conflict Knowledge Base Website.
- Chaitin, J. (2009) From prophecies of war to possibilities of peace: Building bridges between Jewish-Israelis and Palestinians. In C. Rittner & S. Smith (Eds.), No Going Back: Letters to Pope Benedict XVI on the Holocaust, Christian-Jewish Relations and Israel. New York: Continuum Press.
Courses Taught:
- Group Facilitation Theory and Practice
- Qualitative Research I (Ph.D. level)
- Qualitative Research II (Ph.D. level)
- Research Design (M.S. level)
- Researching Conflict
- The Psychosocial Effects of Social Trauma on the Family
- Violence Prevention and Intervention
Julia Chaitin
Kibbutz Urim
Israel