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Conflict and the Social Contract* [PDF]
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2006 AbstractWe consider social contracts for resolving conflicts between two agents who are uncertain about each other's fighting potential. Applications include international conflict, litigation and elections. Even though only a peaceful agreement avoids a loss of resources, if this loss is small enough, then any contract must assign a positive ...
Bester, Helmut, Wärneryd, Karl
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Water Scarcity and Social Conflict [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water in space and time. This is expected to result in wet areas getting wetter and dry areas getting drier (Pan et al., 2015). As water is key to life, water scarcity is likely to provoke conflict.
Kerstin Unfried +2 more
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Social Evolution: Cooperation by Conflict [PDF]
Current Biology, 2006 A recent study suggests that aggression between wasps depends upon the costs and benefits of fighting, as determined by the position of individuals in a dominance hierarchy.
Innocent, T, West, SA
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On the social efficiency of conflict [PDF]
Economics Letters, 2006 Abstract In sharp contrast with the economic literature on conflict, this paper shows that confrontation may be efficiency enhancing. Conditions are derived under which a contest over the exclusive control of a resource Pareto dominates peaceful access.
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Social capital, conflict and welfare [PDF]
Journal of Development Economics, 2017 This paper analyzes the role of external conflict as a force that can create social capital. Hostile inter-group interactions can help to resolve intra-group social dilemmas but these potential gains must be weighed against the insecurity of hostile relations with an out-group.
Jennings, Colin, Sanchez-Pages, Santiago
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Grooming coercion and the post-conflict trading of social services in wild Barbary macaques [PDF]
, 2011 In animal and human societies, social services such as protection from predators are often exchanged between group members. The tactics that individuals display to obtain a service depend on its value and on differences between individuals in their ...
A Patzelt +38 more
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Reputation, Social Identity and Social Conflict [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 AbstractWe interpret the psychology literature on social identity and examine its implications. We model a population of agents from two exogenous and well defined social groups. Agents are randomly matched to play a reduced‐form bargaining game. We show that this struggle for resources drives a conflict through the rational destruction of surplus.
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Conflicting Risk Attitudes [PDF]
, 2015 This paper examines whether differences in individual risk attitudes are related to interpersonal conflict. In more than thirty villages of rural Uganda, we conduct a social survey to document social links between pairs of individuals within a village ...
Ahern +53 more
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Predicting continuous conflict perception with Bayesian Gaussian processes [PDF]
, 2014 Conflict is one of the most important phenomena of social life, but it is still largely neglected by the computing community. This work proposes an approach that detects common conversational social signals (loudness, overlapping speech, etc.) and ...
Filippone, Maurizio +3 more
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Social memory, evidence, and conflict [PDF]
Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010 Abstract This paper examines an equilibrium model of social memory — a society's vicarious beliefs about its past. We show that incorrect social memory is a key ingredient in creating and perpetuating destructive conflicts. We analyze an infinite-horizon model in which two countries face off each period in a game of conflict characterized by the ...
Anderlini L., Gerardi D., Lagunoff R.
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