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Karin Aggestam

Karin Aggestam

Professor | Föreståndare för CMES | Vetenskaplig koordinator för MECW | Excellent lärare

Karin Aggestam

Peace mediation and the minefield of international recognition games

Författare

  • Karin Aggestam

Summary, in English

This article analyzes the intricate dynamics between international mediation and the quest for recognition in protracted conflict. The overarching aim is two-fold: to analyze how the struggle for recognition relates to protracted conflict, and why, when and in what ways recognition poses a barrier to efficient peace diplomacy and mediation. The article explores how preferences and interests are infused with identity politics and claims for recognition. It advances three inter-related dimensions of recognition: ontological security, dignity and identity. The conceptual discussion utilizes empirical illustrations from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Three concluding remarks are made. First, international mediation may be accepted by negotiating parties to achieve international recognition rather than to reach an agreement. Second, due to the problem of recognition the notion of “ending conflict” can backfire in the mediation process. Third, mediators should focus on mutual, but thin recognition towards greater acknowledgement of the untenable and vulnerable positions the parties hold in conflict.

Avdelning/ar

  • Centrum för Mellanösternstudier (CMES)
  • MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World
  • Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
  • Middle Eastern Studies

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

494-514

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Negotiation

Volym

20

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Brill

Ämne

  • Political Science (excluding Peace and Conflict Studies)

Nyckelord

  • Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • dignity
  • identity
  • peace
  • recognition
  • mediation
  • Middle East
  • ontological security

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • Lund Human Rights Research Hub
  • Exploring peace gaps in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Forskningsgrupp

  • Freds- och konfliktforskning
  • Förhandlingar
  • Middle East politics

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1382-340X