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TY - JOUR
T1 - Desectarianization
T2 - Looking Beyond the Sectarianization of Middle Eastern Politics
AU - Mabon, Simon
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Review of Faith & International Affairs on 25/11/2019, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15570274.2019.1681776
PY - 2019/11/30
Y1 - 2019/11/30
N2 - Violent fragmentation in the Middle East has often been reduced to a consequence of “ancient hatreds” that pit Sunni against Shi’a. One of the more compelling arguments to understand the emergence of sectarian violence was proposed by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel who suggest that the politics of the Middle East has undergone a process of sectarianization. This article builds upon the work of Hashemi and Postel to consider potential mechanisms to challenge this process of sectarianization, to work towards desectarianization. Drawing on interviews conducted across the Middle East and on a number of different disciplines, the article proposes a four-stage framework to facilitate desectarianization.
AB - Violent fragmentation in the Middle East has often been reduced to a consequence of “ancient hatreds” that pit Sunni against Shi’a. One of the more compelling arguments to understand the emergence of sectarian violence was proposed by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel who suggest that the politics of the Middle East has undergone a process of sectarianization. This article builds upon the work of Hashemi and Postel to consider potential mechanisms to challenge this process of sectarianization, to work towards desectarianization. Drawing on interviews conducted across the Middle East and on a number of different disciplines, the article proposes a four-stage framework to facilitate desectarianization.
KW - De-sectarianization
KW - Sectarianization
KW - Sectarianism
KW - Middle East
KW - Peace building
U2 - 10.1080/15570274.2019.1681776
DO - 10.1080/15570274.2019.1681776
M3 - Journal article
VL - 17
SP - 23
EP - 35
JO - The Review of Faith & International Affairs
JF - The Review of Faith & International Affairs
IS - 4
ER -