Threat-hardened nationalist groups brand all peace advocates as traitorous enemies.

Evidence

Sinhalese Buddhist nationalists maintain a virulent anti-NGO sentiment, primarily because NGOs promote the peace process and oppose a military solution to the civil war. With the nationalists bent on defeating the LTTE militarily, all those who support a peaceful settlement automatically are branded terrorist sympathizers, parasites, and traitors (DeVotta 2004a; 2005). Norway has acted as a facilitator between the combatants, and its efforts to treat dispassionately the LTTE as an equal negotiating partner especially has led to vilification of the country and its diplomats. This blackguarding of Norwegians, foreigners, and locals associated with NGOs who call for conflict resolution is another facet of the extant Sinhalese Buddhist nationalist ideology. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 207

Categorization

• XREF: Directly speaks to reader’s question about what happens to threat-hardened solidarity when moderation is attempted - peace advocates get absorbed into the enemy category rather than shifting anyone’s position. — connects to: Threat-hardened nationalists treat peace advocates as traitors rather than as correcting voices. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 207; Threat-hardened nationalist forces punished accommodation of the out-group. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 128; Those perceived as traitors draw fiercer hatred than external enemies. (+2 more)
• QUESTION: Does this blackguarding of peace facilitators preserve solidarity by re-generating the enemy signifier whenever the original threat approaches resolution?

Broader Connections

• Threat-hardened nationalists treat peace advocates as traitors rather than as correcting voices. #corroborates (1.00) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 207
• Threat-hardened nationalist forces punished accommodation of the out-group. #corroborates (0.80) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 128
• War-weary extremists who compromise become hated more than enemies #corroborates (0.80) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 824
• Those perceived as traitors draw fiercer hatred than external enemies. #expands (0.75)
• Nationalist ideology turns dissent into treason and undermines civil society #expands (0.72) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 56