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Nation-building and Identity Conflicts

Facilitating the Mediation Process in Southern Philippines

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  • © 2014

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  1. Ariel Hernandez

    1. Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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Ending identity conflicts through negotiated agreements is an intractable process that is embedded complexly in the nation-building process. Ariel Hernandez looks on the complexity of the nation-building process in the Philippines and how its social and political context constrains the achievement of a peace agreement that would withhold new challenges as the process unfolds. Mediation as one of the possible modes of intervention to resolve identity conflicts is taken as the self-evident instrument to end the 40 year old conflict between the Filipino society at large and the Bangsamoro. The analysis confirms that mediation and other types of intervention are contributing to the intractability of identity conflicts by bringing in further complexities in the negotiation process. The conceptualization of “stumbling blocks” may provide knowledge based resources to develop strategies to “facilitate” the mediation process that allows negotiating parties to cope with the complexity of the bargaining table.

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-18
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  2. Introduction – Closing the Unfinished Business

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    Pages 19-30

  3. Catching the Slippery Fish – A Theorization of the Concept of Identity and Identity Conflicts

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    Pages 31-61

  4. The Nation as a Subject of Scientific Studies

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    Pages 63-75

  5. The Hegemonic Nation – How Minorities are Invented

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    Pages 77-92

  6. The Nation and the Legitimacy of Violence –The Need for the Concept of “Non-Competitive Nation-Building

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    Pages 93-116

  7. Mediation as Intervention of Choice – A Critical Analysis of Mediation in Identity Conflicts

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    Pages 117-148

  8. Managing Intractable Identity Conflicts – A Concert of Measures in the Southern Philippines

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    Pages 149-185

  9. Relating Agreements to the Peace Process – The Science and Art of Decision-Making

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    Pages 187-208

  10. Stumbling Blocks – Reasons for Collapse of Agreements

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    Pages 209-228

  11. Strategic Facilitation of the Mindanao Peace Process – Dealing with Stumbling Blocks

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    Pages 229-252

  12. Conclusion – Lessons for Theory and for Action to Resolve Identity Conflicts

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    Pages 253-262
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  • Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Ariel Hernandez

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Dr. Ariel Macaspac Hernandez is a political scientist and mediator and currently a researcher at the Chair of Energy Management at the University of Leipzig.

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