Imagining peace in a conflict environment: Kurdish youths' framing of the Kurdish issue in Turkey, 2014 (original) (raw)

Drawn from focus groups with 55 Kurdish young people in Diyarbakır, this article focuses on the young Kurds’ description of the Kurdish Issue in Turkey and their visions of peace. In recognition of their social and political agency, the article focuses on the Kurdish young people’s framing of both the conflict and peace, based on their own individual everyday observations and experiences, and seeks to understand how they frame the Kurdish Issue by defining the root-causes of the conflict and imagining solutions for its resolution, particularly vis-à-vis the dominant frames regarding the Kurdish Issue in Turkey.