The Bystander project

The Bystander project was one of the priority themes of the Living History Forum for the period 2006-2009. The project consists of a comprehensive educational material supported by teachers training, a permanent and a traveling exhibition and a research component.

With the Holocaust as its point of departure, the aim of the project is to create awareness concerning the role of the bystander. What does it mean to be a bystander?
What stops us from intervening, in the underground, against bullies, or in larger contexts when human rights are violated in a more serious way?

How are we responsible when we do not intervene in any way?
 

Research

» Research within the Bystander project

Listen to interviews with researchers who have focused on the bystanders behavior.

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Mark Levine is a researcher at Lancaster University. His research focuses on individuals, groups and bystander behavior and how to use social identities to promote bystander intervention. His experiment on football supporters has been widely acclaimed.

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Paul Slovic is a researcher at the Decision Research and University of Oregon. His research focuses on psychic numbing and genocide, psychological deciencies and the need to design legal and institutional mechanisms that will enforce proper response to genocide.

Publicerad 2009-11-12 14:22 – Ändrad 2012-03-29 13:02
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