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Everything OK in preventing prejudice and hate? Evidence and future research issues

Sebastian Lutterbach, Andreas Beelmann, University of Jena

Prejudice, discrimination and intergroup hate are consistent and pressing problems to social cohesion and promote societal segregation and polarization. Thus, there is quite a lot of research regarding the prevention of prejudice, outgroup bias, discriminatory attitudes and behavioral motivations as well as intergroup hate. But what do we (not) know about their efficacy and successful implementation? In a first step, we review current evaluation research on approaches, concepts, and programs aiming to prevent prejudice, hate and discriminatory behaviors with a special focus on the effectiveness of such programs for children and adolescents. Second, we derive significant approaches and programs as well as implementation factors that foster prevention of prejudice, discrimination and hate. Third, we identify limitations and problems of prejudice prevention programs and discuss future avenues to address and overcome these constraints in fundamental, practical and evaluation research.

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