National narratives and the Oslo peace process

How peacebuilding paradigms address conflicts over history

Bibliographic Data

ID7338209
AuthorsNadim Khoury (Department of Philosophy University of Tromsø‐The Arctic University of Norway, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume22
Issue3
Pages465-483
Publication date2016-03-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNations and Nationalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1345-5078 • E-ISSN: 1469-8129
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/nana.12166
OpenAlexW2292154302
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited55

National narratives are an essential part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Little is said, however, on how the Oslo Peace Process sought to address these narratives. Conventional wisdom argues that the peace process initiated in the 1990s largely ignored the matter. This article challenges this view, arguing instead that the peace process was and continues to be actively engaged in solving the narrative wars that divide Israelis and Palestinians. To shed light on these solutions, this article looks beyond the agreements of the Oslo Peace Process and focuses on the peacebuilding paradigms that informed it, more specifically, the national partition and the liberal peace paradigms. These prescribe two solutions to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict over history: narrative partition and evasion. In their implementation, the article concludes, these solutions imposed greater identity costs on the Palestinian narrative than on the Israeli one

Aesthetics · Evasion (ethics · Identity (music · Narrative · National identity · Partition (number theory · Peace and conflict studies · Peace economics · Peacebuilding · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Sociology · Computer Science · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society

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