The Palestinian Refugee Question: A Constitutive Constructivist Interpretation
The Palestinian Refugee Question: A Constitutive Constructivist Interpretation
The paper aims to present a constitutive constructivist interpretation of the Palestinian refugeequestion by examining the speeches and other public documents. The proponent questions theperennial inadequacy of mainstream theories particularly realism, thus its purpose is to present analternative theoretical framework, and with the help of a method to deeply understand the problem.The constitutive version of constructivism differs from the conventional strand because it givesimportance to the potency of the use of language. This will be undertaken through the verbs-incontext-system (VICS) method of content analysis. Consequently, the findings are not as good as wewould hope for because based on the calculative verbs that were gathered using VICS, it gave us anegative and even pejorative interpretation whether all of the agreements and public statements weredone in the spirit of pacta sunt servanda. However, there are glitches in the evaluated statementsstating some plethoric and unbinding declarations. Most, if not all, were unilaterally declared based ontheir perspectives and insinuate some argumentative issues particularly on the right of the refugees toreturn to their homeland or acquire their lost properties.
