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âThis is ordinary behaviourâ: Categorization and culpability in Hamas leadersâ accounts of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict
The `metaphorical annihilation' of the Second Lebanon War (2006) from the Israeli political discourse
Social psychology, war and peace: Towards a critical discursive peace psychology.
In this paper I make two related arguments: that peace psychology and social psychological peace research should give greater attention to discourse, and that critical discursive approaches in social psychology should explore matters of international military conflict, an area which has hitherto been somewhat neglected in this tradition of work. These arguments are developed in relation to debates concerning the nature and status of psychological âscienceâ, and the neglect of language in social and peace psychology. To illustrate the possibilities of a critical discursive approach, research on the discursive function of âpeaceâ is discussed. In conclusion, it is suggested that a critical discursive perspective enables analysts to interrogate a range of assumptions underpinning militaristic ideologies