The Big Idea
The Big Idea
BBC World Service
Contact Theory
9 minutes Posted Jun 24, 2018 at 1:00 am.
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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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