TY - JOUR
T1 - What Happens to Peace When the Process is Stalled
T2 - Competing International Approaches to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1996-2021
AU - Lehrs, Lior
AU - Markus, Dror K.
AU - Miodownik, Dan
AU - Sheafer, Tamir
AU - Shenhav, Shaul R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s).
PY - 2022/6/1
Y1 - 2022/6/1
N2 - Does an ongoing stalemate in a peace process affect the international agenda toward the conflict and international perceptions about policies that should be adopted to resolve it? We provide a tentative answer to this question by drawing insight from analysis of developments and trends in international media attention to key terms and concepts in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during cycles of violence, as well as periods of rapprochement and peace negotiations, in the last two and half decades (1996-2021). We find that although attention to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has been declining over the years, much of the international discussion continues to be devoted to relaunching a negotiation process leading to a two-state solution. The ongoing stalemate in such "process,"we show, provides ample opportunities for alternative approaches to emerge advocating alternative endgames (e.g., one-state), international pressure (e.g., Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions), or unilateral steps (e.g., annexation). Each of these approaches promotes an alternative vision and provides a different path and employs its own terminology and vision of the future. The Israeli-Palestinian case study helps illustrate what may happen to peace when the process is stalled, and how a stalemate can produce change in the international debate on the conflict and push for the emergence of new policy directions and agendas.
AB - Does an ongoing stalemate in a peace process affect the international agenda toward the conflict and international perceptions about policies that should be adopted to resolve it? We provide a tentative answer to this question by drawing insight from analysis of developments and trends in international media attention to key terms and concepts in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during cycles of violence, as well as periods of rapprochement and peace negotiations, in the last two and half decades (1996-2021). We find that although attention to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has been declining over the years, much of the international discussion continues to be devoted to relaunching a negotiation process leading to a two-state solution. The ongoing stalemate in such "process,"we show, provides ample opportunities for alternative approaches to emerge advocating alternative endgames (e.g., one-state), international pressure (e.g., Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions), or unilateral steps (e.g., annexation). Each of these approaches promotes an alternative vision and provides a different path and employs its own terminology and vision of the future. The Israeli-Palestinian case study helps illustrate what may happen to peace when the process is stalled, and how a stalemate can produce change in the international debate on the conflict and push for the emergence of new policy directions and agendas.
KW - Israeli-Palestinian conflict
KW - conflict
KW - international discussion
KW - peace process
KW - stalemate
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85132777177&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/jogss/ogac008
DO - 10.1093/jogss/ogac008
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AN - SCOPUS:85132777177
SN - 2057-3170
VL - 7
JO - Journal of Global Security Studies
JF - Journal of Global Security Studies
IS - 2
M1 - ogac008
ER -