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Policy-Making And Connections To Violence: A Case Study Of India, Marie Olson Lounsbery, Frederic S. Pearson
Policy-Making And Connections To Violence: A Case Study Of India, Marie Olson Lounsbery, Frederic S. Pearson
Peace and Conflict Studies
This paper explores the role of identity-based, or discriminatory, policy in facilitating the outbreak of ethnopolitical violence in India. A discriminatory policy is the merging of communal group identity with the state apparatus. It is argued that as the Indian government enacts policies beneficial or discriminatory to particular identity groups within the country, other groups feel threatened. Groups who feel disadvantaged by the policy may begin to fear for their own security and political interests motivating them to rebel. When focusing on Indian policy and ethnopolitical violence during the period 1945 to 2000, the authors find that, although there are …
Volume 10, Number 2 (Fall 2003), Peace And Conflict Studies
Volume 10, Number 2 (Fall 2003), Peace And Conflict Studies
Peace and Conflict Studies
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Rethinking Conflict Resolution: Matching Problems And Solutions, Andrea Talentino
Rethinking Conflict Resolution: Matching Problems And Solutions, Andrea Talentino
Peace and Conflict Studies
This paper addresses international conflict resolution and the disparity between the number of attempts at resolution and the number of successes. It argues that one flaw in efforts thus far has been a lack of understanding of local actors and motivations, leading to ineffective strategies for resolution. In regions where conflict crosses borders, contributes to the trend of politics, and involves mercenary sub-state actors, traditional methods of resolution may be ineffective. Purveyors of violence have little interest in the power-sharing and consensual politics that international actors often try to promote. They also have significant and negative effects on regional stability. …
The Religion Of War And Peace: Better Understanding Of International Conflict, Armand Abecassis
The Religion Of War And Peace: Better Understanding Of International Conflict, Armand Abecassis
Peace and Conflict Studies
PEACE: Is peace the cessation of war? The Binary Logic, The History: War is organized and collective, War is a balance of strengths. Can politics alone create a foundation of peace? Is peace only security? WAR: Is the difference the cause of violence? War is linked to living together as a social group. War: Is the hidden threat in the differences between the nations? War:”Is the midwife of societies”.The problem of terrorism: Is peace the obliteration of the differences? THE MEADING OF CONFLICTS: The conflict is permanent and necessary. Peace is not a cessation of conflict. Peace exists only with, …
Ideology Watch: Television As A Source Of Violence, Ibpp Editor
Ideology Watch: Television As A Source Of Violence, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article provides a commentary on a commonly accepted belief about the causal relationship between viewing televised violence and the viewer’s violent behavior.