Representations of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in France by Cognitive Mapping

In geography, representations allow an analysis of the way people represent the world, or a part of it, from experienced spaces to those apprehended only through their ideational dimensions. This article analyses the representations of a non-experienced territory scene of a conflict since the middle of the twentieth century: spatial representations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict viewed from France. This study aims to determinate the collective representation of the conflict by using cognitive maps. This paper proposes an empirical work with cognitive maps thanks to a survey conducted in France, on undergraduates studying geography/history, as they constitute, in theory, introduced people.