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Framing and fighting: The impact of conflict frames on political attitudes by Daphna Canetti; Ibrahim Khatib; Aviad Rubin; Carly Wayne is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
How does the subjective conceptual framing of conflict impact the warring parties’ attitudes towards political compromise and negotiation? To assess strategies for conflict resolution, researchers frequently try to determine the defining dispute of a given conflict. However, involved parties often view the conflict through fundamentally distinct lenses. Currently, researchers do not possess a clear theoretical or methodological way to conceptualize the complexity of such competing frames and their effects on conflict resolution. This article addresses this gap. Using the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as a case study, we run a series of focus groups and three surveys among Jewish citizens of Israel, Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCIs), and Palestinians in the West Bank. Results reveal that three conflict frames are prominent – material, nationalist, and religious. However, the parties to the conflict differ in their dominant interpretation of the conflict. Jewish Israelis mostly frame the conflict as nationalist, whereas Palestinians, in both the West Bank and Israel, frame it as religious. Moreover, these frames impact conflict attitudes: a religious frame was associated with sign
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- Author
- Daphna Canetti; Ibrahim Khatib; Aviad Rubin; Carly Wayne
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences