Understanding Conflict and ViolenceThis book examines and interprets a wide range of approaches to the causes of violence and conflict.Jacoby, Tim
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This chapter will discuss the need to find new approaches to preventing sexual violence in conflict that focus on preventing the use of children as perpetrators and recipients of this violence. Special focus will be given to the case of South Sudan. Neither truth or lie serves in war, both ...
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Global Trends Report 2024, over 120 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced by persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations by May 2024. "It is war, conflict and regional turbulence that have created ...
Why does peace consolidate in some places previously characterized by large-scale extended violence an answer by comparing the post-conflict experiences of two eastern Indonesian provinces: Maluku and North Maluku. In the former, episodes of large-scale violence have been frequent since the end of ...
Each historical chapter generates questions about the timing and target of ethnic violence. The four models are then applied to the case, to learn which does the best job in explaining the observed patterns of ethnic conflict. The findings challenge conventional wisdom, in that the Resentment ...
From theory to practice: The patterns of violence in northern Ireland 1969–1994 Although thousands of articles and monographs have been written on the contemporary conflict in Northern Ireland, significant theoretical claims have not yet been either rigorously examined or empirically tested. By utilizing...
Academic and policy approaches to this conflict have largely been grouped into defining the violence as either an incidence of irregular warfare, or as a particularly virulent strain of organized crime. Arguing that these models both obscure important aspects of the situation in Mexico, and that ...
THE WORD “CONFLICT”can be applied to everything from a playground squabble to the second world war. For this book it means a difference of opinion – between nations, peoples or political movements – that involves the use of deadly violence. My criterion is that the conflict, no matter ...