ABSTRACT
This chapter explores Sulha within the context of several major conflict resolution theories, including social identity theory (SIT), interdependence theory (IT), realistic conflict theory (RCT), Maslow's needs theory and restorative justice theory. According to sociologists Jan Stets and Peter Burke, a social group is a set of individuals who hold a common social identification or view themselves as members of the same social category. This definition dovetails with the description of the hamula, the social group that is at the core of each Sulha-related conflict, defined by anthropologist Scott Atran Man as the village patronymic group. In order to accommodate the different hierarchy of needs as presented by disputants in Sulha-related conflicts, one should define a different hierarchy of needs within the Sulha's conflict resolution practice. Such a hierarchy does indeed exist, depict the difference between Maslow's approach and the hierarchy of needs in honour-related conflicts in northern Israel's Arab community, whereby the base of the needs pyramid is honour.
