@article{0b85c641ee954cd390af3a1099cd017b,
title = "Conflict Transformation, Stigma, and HIV-Preventive Structural Change",
abstract = "Over the prior decade, structural change efforts have become an important component of community-based HIV prevention initiatives. However, these efforts may not succeed when structural change initiatives encounter political resistance or invoke conflicting values, which may be likely when changes are intended to benefit a stigmatized population. The current study sought to examine the impact of target population stigma on the ability of 13 community coalitions to achieve structural change objectives. Results indicated that coalitions working on behalf of highly stigmatized populations had to abandon objectives more often than did coalitions working for less stigmatized populations because of external opposition to coalition objectives and resultant internal conflict over goals. Those coalitions that were most successful in meeting external challenges used opposition and conflict as transformative occasions by targeting conflicts directly and attempting to neutralize oppositional groups or turn them into strategic allies; less successful coalitions working on behalf of stigmatized groups struggled to determine an appropriate response to opposition. The role of conflict transformation as a success strategy for working on behalf of stigmatized groups is discussed.",
keywords = "Coalitions, HIV/AIDS, Prevention, Stigma, Structural change",
author = "Miller, {Robin Lin} and Reed, {Sarah J.} and Francisco, {Vincent T.} and Ellen, {Jonathan M.}",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments The Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) is funded by Grant No. 2 U01 HD040533 from the National Institutes of Health through the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (B. Kapogiannis, MD), with supplemental funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (N. Borek, PhD), National Institute on Mental Health (P. Brouwers, PhD), and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (K Bryant, PhD). The study was scientifically reviewed by the ATN{\textquoteright}s Community and Prevention Leadership Group. Network scientific and logistical support was provide by the ATN Coordinating Center (C. Wilson, C. Partlow), at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The ATN 079 Protocol Team members are Vincent Francisco (University of North Carolina-Greensboro), Robin Lin Miller (Michigan State University), Jonathan Ellen (Johns Hopkins University), Peter Freeman (Children{\textquoteright}s Memorial Hospital), Lawrence B. Friedman (University of Miami School of Medicine), Grisel-Robles Schrader (University of California-San Francisco), Jessica Roy (Children{\textquoteright}s Diagnostic and Treatment Center), Nancy Willard (Johns Hopkins University), and Jennifer Huang (Westat, Inc.). Research assistantship was provided by Sarah J. Reed (Michigan State University), Ella Dolan (Michigan State University), and Greer Cook (University of North Carolina-Greensboro). The authors thank Miles McNall and five anonymous reviewers for their insightful feedback on prior versions of this paper.",
year = "2012",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1007/s10464-011-9465-7",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "49",
pages = "378--392",
journal = "American Journal of Community Psychology",
issn = "0091-0562",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "3-4",
}