Preventing the Emergence and Entrenchment of Danger-Producing Core Beliefs and the Recurrence of Historical Atrocities
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This conceptual and theoretical paper applies Active Prevention Theory (APT), proposed by Karim Fakhari, to the prevention of historical atrocities. It examines how danger-producing core beliefs emerge, spread, become entrenched, and contribute to discrimination, dehumanisation, structural deprivation, and the denial of equal human dignity.The paper introduces a preventive framework focused on early identification and intervention before dangerous developments reach the Point of No Return. It explores in-group supremacy, xenophobia, informal power structures, institutional exclusion, and the mechanisms through which inequality and deprivation may become normalised.The framework emphasises human dignity, equal fundamental rights, pluralism, education, institutional accountability, and the strengthening of safety-producing core beliefs.This is a conceptual working paper and has not yet undergone peer review or empirical validation.
Author: Fakhari, Karim
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225449334