Sensemaking and Institutionalization in Armed Conflict: Applying Concepts to Practice

Abstract

The objective is to investigate: whether institutional context influences individual sensemaking narratives; whether individual sensemaking processes coalesce to create a collective sensemaking narrative; whether collective sensemaking narratives influence action formation or enactment; and whether collective sensemaking narratives and enactments are winnowed and are externalized as an institutional context over a period of time.