Social Conflicts and Collective Identities

Patrick G. Coy is assistant professor at Kent State University's Center for Applied Conflict Management.Lynne M. Woehrle is assistant professor of sociology at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennslyvania.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Collective Identities and the Development of Conflict AnalysisPart 2 Constructing the Other and Creating ConflictsChapter 3 Racial Discourse and Enemy Construction: Justifying the Internment "Solution" to the "Japanese Problem" during World War IIChapter 4 Foreign Policy Decision-Making in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas WarChapter 5 David Versus Goliath: The Big Power of Small StatesChapter 6 Conflict and Children: Integrated Education in the Segregated Society of Northern IrelandPart 7 Constructing Identities and Resolving ConflictsChapter 8 Who Do They Say We Are? Framing Social Identity and Gender in Church ConflictChapter 9 Fighting Among Friends: The Quaker Separation of 1827Chapter 10 Identity Politics and Environmental Conflict Dynamics: Reexamination of the Negotiated Rulemaking ProcessChapter 11 Rediscovering Memorial Day: Politics, Patriotism, and GenderChapter 12 Swimming against the Tide: Peace Movement Recruitment in an Abeyance Environment

By examining a highly varied set of social conflicts, the authors demonstrate the many important ways collective identities affect but also are shaped by the escalation and de-escalation of conflicts. Considering these wonderfully diverse cases compels the reader to recognize that the formation and the content of identity should be regarded as problematic. The authors provide fresh thinking and intriguing data about identity in all kinds of conflicts, suggesting ways that conflicts can be waged relatively constructively. This is an exciting book about some of the most challenging issues of the contemporary world.