Egemen Devletler Arasinda Istikrarli Baris ve Uzlasma Süreci/Stable Peace and Reconciliation Between Sovereign States

In the discipline of international relations the concepts of reconciliation, rapprochement and stable peace have overlapping contents. In the same vein, it is generally assumed that nations reconcile in concomitant with the stable peace which evolves from diplomatic rapprochement. However, it is underlined in the discipline of conflict resolution that intractable conflicts require special attention for they need drastic societal cognitive and emotional shifts beyond diplomatic elit-led rapprochement. In other words, unlike conventional diplomatic strategies, reconciliation on this sort of conflicts invokes nations' mutual empathy and societal internalization. Furthermore, reconciliation is a public process. This study discusses in what stage of diplomatic rapprochement and stable peace and under what conditions a full-fledged reconciliation process as envisaged in the literature of conflict resolution can be carried out. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]