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May 26, 2022 · In his new book Why We Fight: The Roots of War and The Paths to Peace, Prof. Chris Blattman of the University of Chicago lays out the five main reasons why countries go to war—and why building peace is actually a lot easier than we may think. Blattman is an economist and political scientist who studies global conflict, crime and poverty.
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Oct 3, 2024 · Wars and violence are neither inevitable, nor an inherent part of human nature. The power to reduce violence is in our hands, words and TV remotes. The research in this essay is drawn from Marty ...
Political conflicts appear rampant even in single party or dictatorial political systems where rival factions and administrative departments within the same political organization battle for position and power. Of course, the level of conflict in a political system is related to the structure of that system and the degree to which it pits constituencies against one another.
Aug 21, 2016 · Conflict is real—that is, conflict is often a zero-sum game—and conflict is ‘an inevitable and entirely appropriate aspect of political life’ (Dahl 1982:187, my emphasis). The main reason why political conflict is inevitable, according to pluralism, is that democracy is unable to categorically exclude group interests from entering the political arena (Lipset 1960 :ix).
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Political psychologists argue for the importance of peace research in Headlines and Global News Political psychologists Bernhard Leidner, Brian Lickel and Linda Tropp at the University of Massachusetts Amherst argue that war and violent conflict is not an inevitable component of human nature, having written a special new piece on "peace psychology" that urges people to overturn the widespread ...
Abstract I organize this review and assessment of the literature on the causes of war around a levels-of-analysis framework and focus primarily on balance of power theories, power transition theories, the relationship between economic interdependence and war, diversionary theories of conflict, domestic coalitional theories, and the nature of decision-making under risk and uncertainty. I ...
Our organization, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), defines conflict as “an inevitable aspect of human interaction…when two or more individuals or groups pursue mutually incompatible goals.”. Importantly, the definition clarifies: “conflicts can be waged violently, as in a war, or nonviolently, as in an election or an ...
