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How Do Experts Differ from Politicians in Understanding a Conflict? A Comparison of Track I and Track II Actors
Author(s) -
Uluğ Özden Melis,
Cohrs J. Christopher
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
conflict resolution quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.323
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1541-1508
pISSN - 1536-5581
DOI - 10.1002/crq.21208
Subject(s) - track (disk drive) , democracy , context (archaeology) , political science , identity (music) , political economy , sociology , law , politics , computer science , geography , physics , archaeology , acoustics , operating system
This article explores the conflict understandings of Track II actors in the Kurdish conflict context and compares them with conflict understandings of Track I actors to identify similarities and differences between these actors. The results highlight two different conflict understandings among Track II actors: a democracy and identity viewpoint, and a democracy and economy viewpoint. Integrating these results with previous results for Track I actors highlights four different conflict understandings across Track I and Track II actors: a Kurdish rights viewpoint, a democracy and freedom viewpoint, a conservative‐religious viewpoint, and a terror viewpoint.