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Other CookiesOnOff -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Save preferences About this tool(Opens in a new window) Pause animated content Skip to main content Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion Harnessing cohesion for a more peaceful world Search form Search * Home * People * Leadership * Collaborating Researchers * Advisors * Students * Administration * Research * The Violent Extremism Lab * The Changing Lives Lab * The Ritual, Cohesion and Charisma Lab * The World History Lab * The Global Cohesion Lab * The Social Body Lab * Past Projects * Work with us * Students & Researchers * Partnerships & Policy * Vacancies * Outreach & Impact * Publications * Multimedia * CSSC in the News * Events HOME move to slideshow movement controls Winning at any cost Winning at any cost WINNING AT ANY COST Identity fusion, group essence, and maximizing ingroup advantage Read the article Brazil's football warriors Brazil's football warriors BRAZIL'S FOOTBALL WARRIORS Social bonding and inter-group violence Read the article The Global Family The Global Family THE GLOBAL FAMILY Could kinship and shared experiences of motherhood unite humanity at large? Read the article IS THERE A LANGUAGE OF TERRORISTS? A comparative manifesto analysis Read the article Dying for the group Dying for the group DYING FOR THE GROUP Towards a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice Read the article The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences THE EVOLUTION OF EXTREME COOPERATION VIA SHARED DYSPHORIC EXPERIENCES Read the article Human rites Human rites HUMAN RITES Rituals bind us, in modern societies and prehistoric tribes alike. But can our loyalties stretch to all of humankind? Read the article What motivates extreme self-sacrifice? What motivates extreme self-sacrifice? WHAT MOTIVATES EXTREME SELF-SACRIFICE? Violent extremism isn't really motivated by religion but by fusion with the group Read the article Winning at any cost Winning at any cost WINNING AT ANY COST Identity fusion, group essence, and maximizing ingroup advantage Read the article Brazil's football warriors Brazil's football warriors BRAZIL'S FOOTBALL WARRIORS Social bonding and inter-group violence Read the article Next slide Previous slide Pause slideshow move to slideshow content HOW DOES RELIGION MOTIVATE COOPERATION? Religion has famously motivated many cooperative achievements in world history – from building pyramids and cathedrals to binding together empires. Can religion help us solve even bigger problems facing the world today? All the big religions provide scriptural support for stewardship of the environment. Researchers at the CSSC are seeking to harness the cohesive power of religion to tackle global environmental problems, such as the current climate crisis. Read more HOW CAN WE PREVENT VIOLENT EXTREMISM? CSSC researchers have been studying the causes of self-sacrifice in armed groups ranging from tribal warriors to modern armies and from revolutionary insurgents to suicide terrorists. One of the surprising findings of this work is that extreme self-sacrifice may not be motivated by religious beliefs (or in fact by any kind of ideology) but by a combination of two main factors – a distinctive form of group alignment known as ‘identity fusion’ combined with the conviction that the group is under threat. Fusion of personal and group identities may result from sharing transformative experiences. Read more CAN FOOTBALL FANDOM PROVIDE A PATH TO DESISTANCE? The passions of football fans are well known and the destructive effects of hooliganism notorious. Researchers at the CSSC have been studying the psychology behind football fandom and exploring ways of channelling cohesion among supporters to support peaceful, law-abiding forms of prosocial action. Our findings suggest that far from social maladjustment causing violence, social cohesion is at the heart of the trouble, moderated by perceptions of threat. We have also learned from our research that losing has more powerful and enduring bonding effects on fans than winning. Read more CAN COHESION BE USED TO ADDRESS GLOBAL CHALLENGES? Although social cohesion is one of the most powerful drivers of intergroup conflict, it can also be one of the most enduring solutions. Loving a group entails a commitment to defending it when it is under attack, but what if the group could be expanded to encompass humanity at large? And what if external threats were not so much other groups but global problems facing all of us such as climate change, species loss, intergroup conflict, forced migration, polarisation, extreme poverty, and food insecurity? 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