The Identity Trap: Managing Paradox in Intractable Conflict

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Donohue
Keyword(s):  
Intractable Conflict

Peace Making in the context of Intractable Conflict: Issues and Perspectives

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamir Magal ◽  
Christopher Cohrs ◽  
Evanthia Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Intractable Conflict

Contextualizing Discrimination of Religious and Linguistic Minorities in South Thailand

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Mark Joll
Keyword(s):  
High Tide ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
World War ◽  
Intractable Conflict ◽  
Comparative Historical Analysis ◽  
Second World

Abstract This article explores how scholarship can be put to work by specialists penning evidence-based policies seeking peaceful resolutions to long-standing, complex, and so-far intractable conflict in the Malay-Muslim dominated provinces of South Thailand. I contend that more is required than mere empirical data, and that the existing analysis of this conflict often lacks theoretical ballast and overlooks the wider historical context in which Bangkok pursued policies impacting its ethnolinguistically, and ethnoreligiously diverse citizens. I demonstrate the utility of both interacting with what social theorists have written about what “religion” and language do—and do not—have in common, and the relative importance of both in sub-national conflicts, and comparative historical analysis. The case studies that this article critically introduces compare chapters of ethnolinguistic and ethnoreligious chauvinism against a range of minorities, including Malay-Muslim citizens concentrated in the southern provinces of Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat. These include Buddhist ethnolinguistic minorities in Thailand’s Northeast, and Catholic communities during the second world war widely referred to as the high tide of Thai ethno-nationalism. I argue that these revealing aspects of the southern Malay experience need to be contextualized—even de-exceptionalized.

The Kerry Peace Initiative in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: When Hope and Good Intentions Are Not Enough

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amira Schiff
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Intractable Conflict ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
Opportune Time ◽  
Major Factors

Abstract This article examines the factors that contributed to the failure of the last major effort, which was carried out by us Secretary of State John Kerry, to facilitate a Final Status Agreement to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The analysis is based on an understanding that every effort to resolve this intractable conflict, even if unsuccessful, is worthy of examination, which can yield interesting observations and insights that may inform future attempts to find a solution. As President Trump’s administration makes intensive efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, and the us Middle East negotiation delegation shuttles intensively between the parties and between major regional actors to explore the possibility of renewing official negotiations, this seems like an opportune time to review the major factors that affected the outcome of the previous peace talks.

Intractable Conflict from the Bottom Up

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Cheldelin ◽  
Melanie Greenberg ◽  
Christopher Honeyman ◽  
Maria R. Volpe
Keyword(s):  
Bottom Up ◽  
Intractable Conflict

Gender-empathic Constructions, Empathy, and Support for Compromise in Intractable Conflict

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (8) ◽  
pp. 1727-1752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yossi David ◽  
Nimrod Rosler ◽  
Ifat Maoz
Keyword(s):  
Representative Sample ◽  
Opinion Survey ◽  
Public Opinion Survey ◽  
Intractable Conflict ◽  
Political Compromise ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Traits ◽  
Levels Of Support ◽  
Significant Mediator

The goal of the present study was to investigate how empathy and gender-empathic constructions affect the levels of support for political compromise in an intractable conflict. Gender-empathic constructions relate to perceptions that individuals hold about self or others as having feminine-empathic gender traits. We hypothesized that empathy will be positively associated with support for compromise, but that perceiving one’s own group as feminine empathic will be negatively associated with such attitudes, with empathy being a significant mediator. Data were collected through a public opinion survey conducted with a representative sample of Israeli-Jewish adults ( N = 511). The findings supported our hypotheses, thus indicating that perceiving one’s own group as having feminine-empathic traits and empathy toward opponents made significant contributions to explaining Jewish-Israeli willingness to compromise with Palestinians. The implications of our findings for understanding the role of gender-empathic constructions and of empathy in conflict resolution are discussed.

The Rohingya ‘Origin’ Narrative

2018 ◽  
pp. 73-106
Author(s):  
Anthony Ware ◽  
Costas Laoutides
Keyword(s):  
Historical Record ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Intractable Conflict ◽  
Sociopolitical Context ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Ethic Identity

Chapters Three and Four articulate the competing historical narratives and representations of memory sustaining Myanmar’s ‘Rohingya’ conflict. This chapter examines what the authors designate the Rohingya ‘Origin’ narrative, and interrogates it against the available historical record; the next chapter considers the Rakhine and Burman perspectives. Drawing on the concept of intractable conflict, this chapter commences with an assessment of ‘Rohingya’ written historical sources and their sociopolitical context, then presents an overview and critique of these historical accounts. The chapter summarizes the key narrative of Rohingya origins, examining their representation of various waves of Muslim migration in the distant past, seeking to establish the Rohingya as a national race with deep historical roots in Arakan—and a people integral to Arakan’s political and socioeconomic life until its 1784 conquest by the Burmans. The chapter then offers an analysis of the pre-colonial Muslim population, and assesses their perspectives about the origins of the contemporary conflict. The chapter thus documents and analyses Rohingya claims that various waves of settlers have been assimilated, over centuries, into what is now a single ethic identity with a strong historical connection to the land, and a distinct language, culture and history which should now be considered indigenous to the region.

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