ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests the application of a new subdiscipline, historiography, in conflict studies. By analyzing the vocabulary of parties in conflict, with a focus on historical events alluded at in their speech, it is possible to get a deeper understanding of the ongoing conflict process. Any change in the political situation is immediately reflected in a change of historical allegories. As a consequence, historiographical analyses have prognostic value. A conscious implementation of historiography in mediation can serve the promotion of peace by suggesting reconciliative historical precedents. Examples are provided by an analysis of Islamic vocabulary in war and peace.
