The Impact of the Political Context on Discourse Characteristics in Jewish-Arab Encounters in Israel: Between Peace Talks and Violent Events

Autor/inn/en	Sagy, Shifra; Steinberg, Shoshana; Diab, Hansaa
Titel	The Impact of the Political Context on Discourse Characteristics in Jewish-Arab Encounters in Israel: Between Peace Talks and Violent Events
Quelle	In: Intercultural Education, 17 (2006) 4, S.341-358 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-5986
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Workshops; Jews; Intergroup Relations; Conflict Resolution; Middle Eastern Studies; Interaction Process Analysis; Arabs; Discourse Analysis; Research Methodology; Political Influences; Intercultural Communication; Social Science Research; College Students; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Intergruppenbeziehungen; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung; Prozessanalyse; Arab; Araber; Diskursanalyse; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Collegestudent
Abstract	Research in the field of intergroup relations has developed considerably over the last two decades, influenced by events and by the historical zeitgeist. We suggest applying an interactional way of dealing with intergroup encounters, which emphasizes the situational macro-context (political, historical and social) in which the contact takes place. Employing this approach, the impact of the social-political context on the characteristics of two encounters in which Jewish and Arab Israeli students met to deal with the Israeli-Arab political conflict was examined. The workshops took place within two completely different political contexts. The first workshop was at the time of peace talks, following the Oslo Accords (1996-1997), the second during the "al-Aksa Intifada" (2001-2002). The discussions were recorded and fully transcribed. The two workshops were compared using a typology for classification of the developmental process of discourse between groups. The analysis revealed that during the peace talks "ethnocentric discourse" was the dominant speech category, characterized by two monologues that do not meet. In the second workshop dialogic categories characterized by sharing of feelings, listening to the "other" and making an effort to understand how reality looks from his/her perspective were salient. The research findings are discussed with regard to the paradoxical impact of the political-social context on discourse in small groups. The findings give a new understanding of the role of small intergroup meetings against the background of violent reality in an intractable conflict. (Contains 2 figures and 3 notes.) (Author).
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