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Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2014 Reacting to corruption and oppression in the Kandahar of 1994, the Taliban is seen as working with Sunni clerics to foster a shariat movement for advancing economic justice and (corporal) punishment.
Michael Semple
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Conflict and Health, 2023 Background Healthcare is a basic human right extending across all humanitarian contexts, including conflict. Globally, two billion people are living under conditions of insecurity and violent armed conflict with a consequent impact on public health ...
Chiu-Yi Lin +11 more
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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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Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2023 In this article, we assess the effects of and responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in the Brazilian peripheries by relying on resilience theory and the experiences of peripheral actors during the first year of the pandemic. We consider these experiences to
Roberta Holanda Maschietto +1 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Understanding people’s attitudes toward conciliatory policies in territorial interethnic conflicts is important for a peaceful conflict resolution. We argue that ingroup identification in combination with the largely understudied territorial ownership ...
Nora Storz +2 more
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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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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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Fateful Futures in the Presence of the Past: Epochalist Hopes at South Sudan’s Independence [PDF]
Ученые записки Института Африки Российской академии наук, 2019 Hope, understood as a “temporal reorientation of knowledge” (Miyazaki 2004, 5), enacts and changes the future as a precipitate of interaction (Crapanzano 2003, 6).
Timm SUREAU
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Since 2015, far right parties drawing heavily on radical anti-refugee rhetoric gained electoral support in Germany while the number of political hate crimes targeting refugees rose.
Jonas H. Rees +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In this article, we examine the special challenges posed by the practice of polygamy to minority women, focusing on the ways that the state and the women confront the related experiences of violence and trauma associated with this practice.
Ayelet Harel-Shalev, Rebecca Kook
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