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Brian is the Executive Director of Encounter World Religions and the self declared Religions Geek. His greatest passion is teaching about religion, ethno-religious diversity and what that diversity means in our modern workplaces, schools and societies. Over the past 20 years, through the various programs delivered by Encounter, Brian has helped thousands of people understand more about religious, spiritual and secular identities in ways that help them be a better leader, colleague, neighbour and friend.

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Contact Can Change Us

By |February 15th, 2024|Categories: Life of Brian|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Psychologist Gordon Allport founded the idea of Contact Theory, which suggests you can reduce intergroup conflict by creating connections between people from different communities. Essentially, through contact with others, we get to know one another better and discriminatory attitudes diminish. But there's a catch – it doesn't always work. American slave owners had lots of contact with their slaves, and Christians had centuries of contact with Jewish minorities in their towns but these interactions most certainly did not reduce conflict or discriminatory attitudes. Allport was wise to this and paid [...]

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