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Intergroup Dialogue as a Just Dialogue: Challenging and Preventing Normalization in Campus Dialogues
Author(s) -
YazbakAbu Ahmad Manal,
Dessel Adrienne B.,
Mishkin Alice,
Ali Noor,
Omar Hind
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
digest of middle east studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.225
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1949-3606
pISSN - 1060-4367
DOI - 10.1111/dome.12067
Subject(s) - normalization (sociology) , negotiation , boycott , globe , political science , sociology , social psychology , criminology , psychology , law , social science , politics , neuroscience
Abstract The tensions from the Israeli occupation of Palestine reach around the globe and heated debates over the struggles of these two peoples are evident on U.S. college campuses. The power imbalance represented in the relationship between Palestinians and Israelis is replicated on college campuses. BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) is a response to this inequality, is a movement to end the occupation, and has raised the issue of normalization. Teaching about this conflict presents particular challenges for faculty who negotiate this highly contested issue in classrooms or campus communities, and intergroup dialogue is an important pedagogy that can be used. It is critical to address normalization in intergroup dialogue. We discuss examples and themes of normalization in intergroup dialogue, and present pedagogical and other strategies to prevent and address normalization in intergroup dialogue and in other similar intergroup contact approaches with Arab or Palestinian and Jewish or Israeli participants.