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Contact theory

How do you stop different groups hating each other? Miles Hewstone says what’s really needed is contact.

How do you stop different groups hating each other? Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. Palestinians and Jews in the Middle East. Muslims and Hindus in India. Is building walls between them the solution? According to Miles Hewstone, of Oxford University, what’s really needed is contact – the more you are exposed to people in another group, the less you distrust and fear them.

Presented by David Edmonds

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Sun 7 Jun 2020 22:50GMT

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