Social Conflicts and Collective Identities

by Coy, Patrick G.; Woehrle, Lynne M.; Byrne, Sean; Cavey, Verna M.; Cook-Huffman, Celia; Femenia, Nora; Kendrick, Richard; Klein, Ross A.; Petonito, Gina; Polkinghorn, Brian; Wagner, Christine

• ISBN13: 9780742500518
• ISBN10: 0742500519
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Despite the ubiquity of conflict, significant gaps remain in our knowledge of what influences its escalation and resolution. How collective identity formation impacts social conflicts is taken up in these compelling case studies, ranging from church and community disputes, ethnic conflicts, environmental disputes, to international trade disputes and wars. With its ground-breaking scholarship, Social Conflicts and Collective Identities is sure to become a basic building block for the burgeoning conflict resolution field and for improved understanding of identity dynamics in human conflict.

Author Biography

Patrick G. Coy is assistant professor at Kent State University's Center for Applied Conflict Management. Lynne M. Woehrle is assistant professor of sociology at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Collective Identities and the Development of Conflict Analysis	1	(19)
Lynne M. Woehrle
Patrick G. Coy
Collective Identity	3	(2)
Resource Issues in Identity-Based Conflicts	5	(1)
Group Differentiation and Enemy-Imaging	6	(2)
Collective Identity in Conflict Escalation	8	(1)
Collective Identity in Conflict Resolution	9	(1)
Overview of Individual Chapters	10	(4)
Conclusion	14	(1)
Notes	14	(5)
Part One: Constructing the Other and Creating Conflicts
Racial Discourse and Enemy Construction: Justifying the Internment ``Solution'' to the ``Japanese Problem'' during World War II	19	(22)
Gina Petonito
Constructing Enemies	20	(1)
The Japanese Internment Case	21	(1)
Data Sources	22	(1)
Racial Discourse	23	(4)
Racial Claims	27	(6)
Developing Solutions to the Enemy Alien Problem	33	(1)
Discussion	34	(2)
Notes	36	(5)
Emotional Actor: Foreign Policy Decision Making in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War	41	(26)
Nora Femenia
Underlying Affective Factors in Foreign Policy Decision-Making	42	(2)
The Inadequacy of Realism	44	(2)
Argentina's Growing Isolation on the International Scene	46	(10)
The United Kingdom: In Need of a Good War	56	(5)
Conclusion	61	(2)
Notes	63	(4)
David versus Goliath: The Big Power of Small States	67	(24)
Ross A. Klein
The Cases	68	(5)
The Big Power of Small States	73	(7)
Playing One's Adversary against Itself	80	(2)
The Interdependent World System	82	(2)
International Organizations and Alliances	84	(1)
Other Factors	85	(1)
Conclusion	86	(2)
Notes	88	(3)
Conflict and Children: Integrated Education in the Segregated Society of Northern Ireland	91	(24)
Seam Byrne
Protestant Alienation and Identification with the Monarchy	92	(4)
Methodology	96	(1)
Results	97	(8)
Discussion	105	(2)
Conclusion	107	(1)
Notes	108	(7)
Part Two: Constructing Identities and Resolving Conflicts
Who Do They Say We Are? Framing Social Identity and Gender in Church Conflict	115	(18)
Celia Cook-Huffman
Social Identity Theory and Social Conflict	115	(2)
Methodology	117	(1)
Social Identity and the Construction of Social Conflict	118	(6)
The Construction of Social Identity in Conflict	124	(2)
Implications for Theory Building	126	(2)
Conclusion	128	(1)
Notes	129	(4)
Fighting among Friends: The Quaker Separation of 1827	133	(16)
Verna M. Cavey
Bases of Conflict: Social Context	134	(1)
Threat to Quaker Identity	135	(3)
Stages of the Conflict	138	(2)
Conflict Resolution	140	(3)
Implications	143	(3)
Notes	146	(3)
Identity Polities and Environmental Conflict Dynamics: A Reexamination of the Negotiated Rulemaking Process	149	(20)
Brian Polkinghorn
Environmental Conflict Knowledge	151	(3)
Social Identity	154	(1)
The Research Setting	155	(4)
Engaging in Conflict Strengthens Identity	159	(2)
The Public Images of Working with the Enemy	161	(1)
The Invisible People and the Power of Identity	162	(2)
Conclusion	164	(1)
Notes	165	(4)
Rediscovering Memorial Day: Politics, Patriotism, and Gender	169	(20)
Christine Wagner
Surprising Intimacy: Collecting and Story	170	(1)
Not Just a Simple Parade	171	(3)
Building Community Memory	174	(2)
Public Debates/Private Wars: Gender Dimensions of the Conflict	176	(1)
Women: At War and Peace	177	(1)
Structural Conflict	178	(2)
Symbolic Conflict	180	(3)
Outcomes: The Community, the Coalitions, the People	183	(3)
Notes	186	(3)
Swimming against the Tide: Peace Movement Recruitment in an Abeyance Environment	189	(16)
Richard Kendrick
Background	190	(1)
The Problems of Recruiting in an Abeyance Climate	191	(2)
Creating Contexts for Recruitment: The Role of Projects	193	(3)
Do Projects Work?	196	(3)
Conclusion	199	(2)
Notes	201	(4)
Index	205	(10)
About the Contributors	215