Narratives and Symbols in Violent Mobilization: The Palestinian-Israeli Case

Kaufman, Stuart J.

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“…While group identification is a central feature of collective action, it has mostly been studied as a unidimensional construct, such that stronger identification with a group promotes collective action to benefit the group. However, the content and meaning of a group’s identity can shape the downstream consequences of ingroup identification on intergroup relations (Kaufman 2009; Livingstone and Haslam 2008). Scholars in the social identity literature have theorized that group identification is a multidimensional construct (Ashmore, Deauz, and McLaughlin-Volpe 2004; Kosterman and Feshbach 1989; Leach et al 2008; Roccas et al 2006; Schatz, Staub, and Lavine 1999), such that the different components of ingroup identification can have distinct consequences for intergroup relations.…”

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“…Relatedly, scholars have begun expanding the traditional scope of security, going beyond a state's militaristic aspects to include societal security-which is based on defending ingroup identity (Bilgin 2004;Møller 2003;Theiler 2003). In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, mobilization among both sides is rooted in competing historical narratives about group identities (Kaufman 2009)-which makes it particularly critical to understand group-based responses to conflict.…”

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Modes of Ingroup Identification and Notions of Justice Provide Distinct Pathways to Normative and Nonnormative Collective Action in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict

Selvanathan

Leidner

2020

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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People on both sides of an intergroup conflict undertake various forms of collective action to seek justice for their own group. Three studies investigated whether modes of ingroup identification promoted distinct preferences for justice, which subsequently shaped the form of collective action people supported. Among Arab (Study 1, n = 148) and Jewish Israelis (Study 2, n = 294), we found that ingroup glorification promoted a desire for retributive justice, which predicted support for nonnormative collective action, whereas ingroup attachment promoted a desire for restorative justice, which predicted support for normative collective action. Further, during a period of conflict escalation (i.e., Palestinian protests at the Gaza Strip), emphasizing retributive or restorative justice produced differential effects on the links from glorification and attachment to nonnormative and normative collective action (Study 3, n = 546). This research advances our understanding of when and how collective action can escalate intergroup conflict.

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Modes of Ingroup Identification and Notions of Justice Provide Distinct Pathways to Normative and Nonnormative Collective Action in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict

Selvanathan

Leidner

2020

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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“…Most prominently, he consistently pitted instrumental calculation (i.e., rational choice) against symbolic politics (Kaufman 2001(Kaufman :17-29, 2006(Kaufman , 2009(Kaufman , 2011). Yet symbolic politics (i.e., manipulation of ethnic symbols) are processes, whereas myths and economic factors are facilitating or constraining factors.…”

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“…Thus, Gagnon (1994–1995) emphasized the political side of elite manipulation of ethnic identities and fear, and Arfi (1998) focused on the social and symbolic side, as if these two sides are not part of the same story, even though they examined the same case of Yugoslavia. Likewise, both Arfi (1998) and Kaufman (2001, 2006, 2009, 2011) pitted factors that fall within the rational choice realm against more symbolic factors, as if material and symbolic interests cannot coincide. Most quantitative studies, heeding the underlying logic of statistical inferences, also pit factors that may affect different motives and constraints against each other, thus implicitly assuming that explanatory factors, as independent variables, are actually independent from each other in the real world.…”

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The Onset of Ethnic War

Tang

2015

Sociological Theory

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This article develops a general theory regarding the onset of ethnic war, starting with two analytic innovations: a mechanism-based approach toward social facts and an emphasis on dynamic interactions. I deploy two meta-mechanisms -the security dilemma/spiral model and intergroup-intragroup interactions -as meta-synthesizers. I then bring together the numerous factors and mechanisms scattered in the literature into a more integrative and dynamic theory of ethnic war by linking factors with immediate drivers of conflictual behavior via the two meta-mechanisms. The resulting theory not only integrates numerous factors and mechanisms identified within the existing literature, but it also reveals previously hidden or neglected factors, interactions, and mechanisms that point to fruitful directions for future inquires.Since 1945, intrastate wars have been far more frequent and more destructive than interstate wars, and more than half the intrastate wars have been ethnic based rather than related to class or ideology. Not surprisingly, ethnic civil war (hereafter ethnic war), as a specific form of civil war, has become one of the most visible fields of inquiry in the social sciences, producing an already voluminous and still growing literature. 1 The study of ethnic war, however, is not without problems (for earlier critical reviews, see Wimmer, Cederman, and Min 2009). One fact stands out: the field has become extremely fragmented as it has expanded. From quantitative studies, we have many correlations that seem to link some factors with ethnic war or peace, often without causal mechanisms ). 2 From qualitative studies (i.e., comparative case studies), we have many specific theories of ethnic war that look to particular factors and causal mechanisms. Not only are syntheses lacking, but students of ethnic war tend to pit some factors and mechanisms against others, as if their favored factors and mechanisms alone can adequately explain the

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“…It can be concluded that the Israeli and Palestinian GWN discourses contain a predominately (but not completely) positive image of the out-group, especially compared to the respective dominant discourses in both countries (e.g., Bar-Tal, 1998;Kaufman, 2009). This largely empathic construction of the other as a neighbor, fellow human and partner is supporting the de-securitization of water issues and facilitates water cooperation.…”

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Socio-environmental cooperation and conflict? A discursive understanding and its application to the case of Israel and Palestine

Ide¹,

Fröhlich

2015

Earth Syst. Dynam.

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Abstract. The existing literature faces difficulties when accounting for the simultaneity of socio-environmental conflict and cooperation. We suggest that this puzzle can be solved by more recent constructivist works, which argue that conflictive or cooperative behavior is driven by discursively constructed interests, identities and situation assessments. Based on a literature review and field interviews, we analyze and compare the dominant water discourses in Israel and Palestine with the discourse dominant among the activists of a water cooperation project between communities from Israel and the West Bank. Our main result is that discourses are indeed crucial for understanding water-related conflict and cooperation. This finding highlights the relevance of constructivist approaches in the study of socio-environmental conflict and cooperation as well as of practices of bottom-up discursive conflict transformation.

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Narratives and Symbols in Violent Mobilization: The Palestinian-Israeli Case

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Modes of Ingroup Identification and Notions of Justice Provide Distinct Pathways to Normative and Nonnormative Collective Action in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict

Modes of Ingroup Identification and Notions of Justice Provide Distinct Pathways to Normative and Nonnormative Collective Action in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict

The Onset of Ethnic War

Socio-environmental cooperation and conflict? A discursive understanding and its application to the case of Israel and Palestine

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