The Power of Narratives in Conflict and Peace: The Case of Contemporary Iraq

Millar, Gearoid; Ehrmann, Moritz

doi:10.1080/13698249.2021.2004044

Civil Wars

2021

DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2021.2004044

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The Power of Narratives in Conflict and Peace: The Case of Contemporary Iraq

Gearoid Millar¹,

Moritz Ehrmann

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Bonnet

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Within the fields of narratology, cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis, this article studies how “Vote Leave” – the “respectable” side of the pro-Brexit debate –, used storytelling to frame an exclusionary conception of the British nation. To do so, the article relies on a critical narrative analysis of the storytelling elements at the heart of a corpus of official documents from the 2016 campaign, and argues that those Brexit narratives were instrumental in the creation of a nativist conception of the British nation. The paper contributes to the rich literature on Brexit narratives by adopting an original approach focusing on what we call “enemy narratives” and on how this type of narratives helped construct a restrictive understanding of the British nation. The result will be correlated with the growing political polarization of post-Brexit British society and the emergence of what some researchers consider as a culture war

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Political Mobilization in Heterogeneous Societies Under a Consociational Political System: A Comparative Study of Identities and Demonstrations in Iraq, Lebanon and Iran

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Uncertain Readiness: Process Design and Complexity Management in Peace Negotiations

Arévalo

2023

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The reasons behind the development and outcomes of peace negotiations remain a subject of debate among scholars and practitioners. Structural conflict conditions of the conflict are often emphasized as key explanatory variables. However, this approach often neglects the actual intricacies of peace talks once they are in place and, instead, correlates negotiation outcomes with variables that are not actively part of them. Drawing on conflict resolution theory and the theory of complexity, the article proposes a theory for understanding the dynamics of peace negotiations. The main argument is that in a complex environment like one of peace talks, decisions on process design can be a key determinant of the effort devoted by the parties, and thus, of the negotiations unfolding. One contribution of this approach is the recognition of the potential of a negotiation to transform the relationship between the parties from one of conflict to one of cooperation in a joint effort to work toward a negotiated solution, provided that the complexity of the negotiation and the uncertainties associated to it are properly managed. Negotiation process design can provide some of the tools to do so. Similarly, this approach makes it possible to understand the existence of negotiations in which the parties are interested in keeping the dialogue open, regardless of some conditions of the conflict, for instance, alleged lack of ripeness. As an example, the paper studies the case of the Colombian government's parallel peace negotiations with the FARC and the ELN in the period 2010–2018, which shows the possible role of process design variables in the different paths of these two negotiations.

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The Power of Narratives in Conflict and Peace: The Case of Contemporary Iraq

Cited by 3 publications

References 39 publications

Enemy narratives

Enemy narratives

Political Mobilization in Heterogeneous Societies Under a Consociational Political System: A Comparative Study of Identities and Demonstrations in Iraq, Lebanon and Iran

Uncertain Readiness: Process Design and Complexity Management in Peace Negotiations

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