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Reputation, Social Identity and Social Conflict [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN 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.
openaire   +4 more sources

The Taliban in 2024

open access: yesStability : 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
doaj   +1 more source

Affective polarization in low-partisanship societies. The case of Chile 1990–2021

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science, 2022
Does the decline in party identification lead to a decrease or an increase in affective polarization? In recent years, research about affective polarization has increased, asking whether contemporary publics polarize in terms of their affective ...
Carolina Segovia, Carolina Segovia
doaj   +1 more source

The challenges of international collaboration in conflict and health research: experience from the Research for Health in Conflict-Middle East and North Africa (R4HC-MENA) partnership

open access: yesConflict 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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HCI for peace: from idealism to concrete steps [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This panel will contribute diverse perspectives on the use of computer technology to promote peace and prevent armed conflict. These perspectives include: the use of social media to promote democracy and citizen participation, the role of computers in ...
Bullock-Rest, Natasha E.   +5 more
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Rent-Seeking Practices, Local Resource Curse, and Social Conflict in Uganda’s Emerging Oil Economy

open access: yesLand, 2019
We consider the different types of rent-seeking practices in emerging oil economies, and discuss how they contribute to social conflict and a local resource curse in the Albertine Graben region of Uganda.
Tom Ogwang, F. Vanclay, A. Assem
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Climate of Hate: Similar Correlates of Far Right Electoral Support and Right-Wing Hate Crimes in Germany

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Questioning Resilience: An Examination of the Effects of and Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Peripheries of Brazil

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Support for Conciliatory Policies in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Role of Different Modes of Identification and Territorial Ownership Perceptions

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental change and social conflict: the northeast Atlantic mackerel dispute

open access: yesRegional Environmental Change, 2017
A recurrent critique of the proposition of a causal relation between environmental change and social conflict is that it fails to account for the complexities and dynamics of processes of social-ecological change.
J. Spijkers, W. J. Boonstra
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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