Conflicting Identities? Self-identification in Conflict Settings

Evidence from Israel and Arab States

Bibliographic Data

ID12892178
AuthorsIbrahim Khatib (0000-0001-7658-3511, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author), Mika Hackner (0000-0002-2181-6514, Brandeis University), Aviad Rubin (0000-0003-4145-5522, University of Haifa), Daphna Canetti (0000-0003-0794-4090, University of Haifa)
Year2023
Volume23
Issue4
Pages356-385
Publication date2023-04-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9057 • E-ISSN: 1744-9065
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449057.2023.2188758
OpenAlexW4362608052
LanguageEN
References cited67

How does self-identification impact warring individuals’ attitudes towards political compromise? How individuals from different parties to a protracted conflict self-identify is more often than not assumed rather than tested. This work remedies this deficiency by measuring how individuals living within protracted conflict self-identify and the implications for willingness to compromise. Based on two surveys (411 and 2171 participants) conducted in two different periods, we test the impact of self-identification on attitudes towards compromise. The results problematize scholars’ tendency to label dominant identities in a conflict in monolithic terms which may be a crucial impasse to conflict resolution. The results show a difference in the main self-identification that Palestinians, Jordanians, Tunisians and Israelis hold; Palestinians, Jordanians, and Tunisians adopt religious identification in the context of the conflict and Israeli Jews adopt civic-national identification. Religious identification in the different groups leads to decreased willingness to compromise, and civic identification in a conflict context increases it

Criminology · Identification (biology · Political science · Self identification · Sociology · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology