2012/06/12 by Lorenzo Kamel, Daniela Huber · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Middle East Politics and Society #Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts #Existentialism #Narrative #Space (punctuation) #Political science #Sociology #Civil society #Process (computing) #Criminology #Law #Philosophy #Computer science
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1468-0130.2012.00755.x
published in Peace & Change 37(3), 366-388 (Wiley)
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As a result of the failure of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, new initiatives from civil society have emerged. Initiators learned from the shortcomings of the peace process and seek to achieve peace through understanding the suffering of the Other. Such attempts leave an open space for the trauma of the counterpart and engage both sides in deconstructing mutually exclusive identities that represent the Other as an existential threat. They represent a first step for a deep dialogue and have the potential to (de)threatenize the Other. This article examines two such initiatives that are unique in not seeking to explain their own narrative to the Other, but to present the narrative of the Other to their very own community.