This article highlights the importance of studying both identity change and change of social institutions when aiming to understand prerequisites for sustainable peace.
Starting off in the concept of agonistic peace, this study sketches a framework for analyzing the outcome of peace processes where different aspects of recognition are studied in order to capture identity change. The focus is also on inclusion and dialogue within societal institutions from local to elite levels, which should be examined so as to discern how institutional aspects affect the duration of peace processes.
The study is of mainly conceptual and analytical character, but uses examples from the peace processes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland to illustrate the analytical dimensions and their applicability also in other protracted identity conflicts.
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