Abstract
Using a positioning theory lens, we investigated contentious intergroup conversations about a peace agreement called the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Our data pool consisted of 220 articles from newspaper and government/MILF website sources. We identified a variety of changing storylines, identities, rights and duties, and social forces of speech and non-speech acts. We discovered that the meaning of a peace agreement (a) varies across different political groups; (b) changes across time, as the public debate intensifies; (c) and may morph to discourses about group victimization and negative collective identities of the low-power group during conflict escalation. Our findings also suggest that a wider sequential lens during intergroup political conversations may reveal episodes where avenues for social justice for the low-power group are blocked, and are then followed by eruptions of so-called terrorist acts.
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