Modelling Intergroup Conflict Escalation and De-Escalation

People on both sides of an intergroup conflict undertake various forms of collective action to seek justice for their own group. Three studies investigated whether modes of ingroup identification promoted distinct preferences for justice, which subsequently shaped the form of collective action people supported. Among Arab (Study 1, n = 148) and Jewish Israelis (Study 2, n = 294), we found that ingroup glorification promoted a desire for retributive justice, which predicted support for nonnormative collective action, whereas ingroup attachment promoted a desire for restorative justice, which predicted support for normative collective action. Further, during a period of conflict escalation (i.e., Palestinian protests at the Gaza Strip), emphasizing retributive or restorative justice produced differential effects on the links from glorification and attachment to nonnormative and normative collective action (Study 3, n = 546). This research advances our understanding of when and how collective action can escalate intergroup conflict.

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Intergroup Conflict Escalation Leads to More Extremism

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation ◽

10.18564/jasss.2559 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Meysam Alizadeh ◽

Alin Coman ◽

Michael Lewis ◽

Claudio Cioffi-Revilla

Keyword(s):

Intergroup Conflict ◽

Conflict Escalation

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‘Is Ethnicity the Root of all Evil?’ Engaging Macro and Micro Analysis of Ethnic Violence

10.31227/osf.io/gsydf ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Rizqy Amelia Zein

Keyword(s):

Extreme Case ◽

Ethnic Violence ◽

Intergroup Conflict ◽

Social Psychological ◽

Intragroup Conflict ◽

Conflict Escalation ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Political Approach ◽

Symbolic Approach ◽

Micro Analysis

In this theoretical review, the author examines intergroup conflict and genocide as the manifestation of politicised nationalism using several theoretical approaches. The theoretical review starts from combining micro (social-psychological approach) and macro perspectives (sociological and political approach) to answer these following questions; (a) how do we explain intragroup conflict and genocide as the consequences of nationalism’s existence? (b) In what circumstances are intergroup conflict, or in the most extreme case; genocide, likely to occur? (c) To what extent is the peace-making strategy significantly able to reduce the conflict escalation? Thus, the theoretical review is structured into four parts; addressing the problem of intergroup conflict and genocide as well as emphasising its importance to be aware of; tracing back the emergence of the nation using Smith and Barthian’s ethno-symbolic approach; narrating the conditions in which allow intergroup conflict arose; critical review of the peace-making strategy as ethnic conflict resolution and some concluding remarks.

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Modelling Intergroup Conflict Escalation and De-Escalation

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e673512012-035 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Druckman ◽

Andrzej Nowak

Keyword(s):

Intergroup Conflict ◽

Conflict Escalation

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Reasons to strike first

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19000840 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Author(s):

William Buckner ◽

Luke Glowacki

Keyword(s):

Intergroup Conflict ◽

Small Scale

Abstract De Dreu and Gross predict that attackers will have more difficulty winning conflicts than defenders. As their analysis is presumed to capture the dynamics of decentralized conflict, we consider how their framework compares with ethnographic evidence from small-scale societies, as well as chimpanzee patterns of intergroup conflict. In these contexts, attackers have significantly more success in conflict than predicted by De Dreu and Gross's model. We discuss the possible reasons for this disparity.

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Using the research on intergroup conflict in nonhuman animals to help inform patterns of human intergroup conflict

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19000827 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Author(s):

Amanda R. Ridley ◽

Melanie O. Mirville

Keyword(s):

Large Body ◽

Nonhuman Animal ◽

Intergroup Conflict ◽

Costs And Benefits ◽

Animal Groups ◽

Interesting Article ◽

Nonhuman Animals

Abstract There is a large body of research on conflict in nonhuman animal groups that measures the costs and benefits of intergroup conflict, and we suggest that much of this evidence is missing from De Dreu and Gross's interesting article. It is a shame this work has been missed, because it provides evidence for interesting ideas put forward in the article.

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