Societal Security: Applying the Concept to the Process of Kurdish Identity Construction
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With societal security, the Copenhagen school has provided a concept that illuminates much of the conflict between states and sub-state groups, though, as their critics have pointed out, the danger of reifying the identity of these groups is all too real. How can the concept be employed without succumbing to the weaknesses associated with the reification of societal identity. This paper examines the process of Kurdish identity formation to examine how multiple actors within Kurdish society identified threats in an effort to re-construct the identity of Kurdish society. Such an approach shows that societal security can be used in conjunction with a process-driven view of identity, which avoids the criticism of reifying societal identity, and that this gives us a greater handle on conflict between these societies and their host states, and within the societies themselves. Societal Security: Applying the Concept to the Process of Kurdish Identity Construction With societal security, the Copenhagen school has provided a concept that illuminates much of the conflict between states and sub-state groups, though, as their critics have pointed out, the danger of reifying the identity of these groups is all too real. How can the concept be employed without
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