The Impact of Violent Conflict on Christian Denominations

2014 ◽  
pp. 181-202
Keyword(s):  
Violent Conflict ◽  
The Impact

Disrupting Settler-Colonialism or Enforcing the Liberal ‘Peace’? Transitional (In)justice in Palestine-Israel

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Brendan Ciarán Browne
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Liberal Peace ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Liberal Peacebuilding ◽  
Insight Into

The growing interest in ‘During Conflict Justice’ (DCJ) in areas experiencing ongoing, sustained violent ‘conflict’ has further demonstrated the confluence between transitional justice and liberal peacebuilding approaches. Nowhere so is this more evident than in the case of Palestine-Israel where an ongoing process of Israeli settler-colonialism in historic Palestine continues, with the further spotlighting of ‘justice’ issues that are longstanding and unresolved. This article critiques the application of TJ/DCJ in Palestine-Israel and calls for a radicalisation of its application so as to ensure a platforming of conversation around decolonisation. It does so by critiquing the impact of discourse, specifically the framing of the ‘conflict’ and focuses on the nefarious role of a liberal peace building agenda in Palestine-Israel, a process that has embedded a deeply unjust and inequitable status quo. An insight into several ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ strategies of TJ/DCJ in Palestine-Israel is provided, with the conclusion reached that; any TJ/DCJ praxis that does not platform meaningful conversation around decolonisation in the region will ultimately amount to the individualisation of ‘justice’ whilst failing to address root causes.

Plan Colombia and the revolution in military affairs: the demise of the FARC

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 715-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIM ROCHLIN
Keyword(s):  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Relative Power ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Plan Colombia ◽  
Political Exclusion ◽  
Revolution In Military Affairs ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Revolution

AbstractThis article examines the impact of the utilisation of the RMA on the part of the Colombian and US governments vis-à-vis the Farc. The central argument is that the RMA as applied in Colombia relies on newfangled and sometimes clever conceptions of force that have weakened the relative power of the Farc, but which fail to address the root causes of insurgency in the country that centre on profound economic inequity and violent political exclusion. Over 75 per cent of the $6 billion so far divulged through Plan Colombia has been devoted to military and police assistance, with the rest going to institutional programmes and to a lesser extent to social programmes. Although the insurgents are indeed weaker, as a result both of the RMA as well as misguided policies on the part of the guerrillas themselves, they are by no means ‘broken’. Violent conflict in the country will likely persist into the foreseeable future.

How Should We Explain the Recurrence of Violent Conflict, and What Might Gender Have to Do with It?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy El-Bushra
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Conflict Analysis ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Accurate Analysis ◽  
Feminist Analysis ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines the factors behind the lack of progress in minimizing conflict, building peace, and improving security for women in conflict-affected environments. It reviews how cycles of conflict have been described in mainstream conflict analysis, which often include ill-conceived and temporary approaches to conflict management. The chapter explores where gender has been situated in these analyses, as well as the impact of adding gender data in operationalizing conflict responses, as opposed to engaging in a more thorough feminist analysis. This chapter then offers suggestions for broadening the mainstream approach by integrating a more fruitful gender analysis that addresses integrating holistic understandings of gendered relationships within society as a whole. The chapter ends with a call to conceptualize both conflict and gender as complex and fluid in order to create a more accurate analysis and more nuanced responses.

scholarly journals Double Trouble: Analyzing the Impact of Statelessness on the Status of Kurdish Women

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Garfinkel
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Surface Level ◽  
Iraqi Kurdistan ◽  
Kurdish Women ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Impact

The struggle of Kurdish women at large has been, as many media outlets suggested, an extraordinary and unique example of women’s status in the Middle East. In contrast to the widespread, surface-level narrative of Kurdish women’s empowerment, a complex political, socio-historical background of Kurdish statelessness has intensified women’s empowerment or oppression. This essay will demonstrate how nationalist ideology, autonomous spaces, and violent conflict may provide the conditions for a 'double revolution' and/or 'double oppression' of stateless Kurdish women through the lens of statelessness. These three features of statelessness intersect with unique features of the stateless Kurdish populations across the Middle East to determine a woman’s status. More specifically, the case of Syrian Kurdistan exemplifies a 'double revolution' while Iraqi Kurdistan exemplifies a case of 'double oppression' for Kurdish women.

scholarly journals Diamonds, Rebel’s and Farmer’s Best Friend: Impact of Variation in the Price of a Lootable, Labor-intensive Natural Resource on the Intensity of Violent Conflict

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anouk S. Rigterink
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Opportunity Costs ◽  
Geological Characteristics ◽  
World Price ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Conflict Intensity ◽  
Better Than

This article investigates the impact of the world price of a “lootable,” labor-intensive natural resource on intensity of violent conflict. Results suggest that a price increase can have opposite effects at different geographical levels of analysis: a decrease in conflict intensity overall in resource-rich countries, but an increase in conflict intensity in resource-rich subnational regions. The article argues that intensity of violence decreases overall due to rising opportunity costs of rebellion but that violence concentrates in resource-rich areas as returns to looting rise. The article introduces a new measure of diamond propensity based on geological characteristics, which is arguably exogenous to conflict and can capture small-scale labor-intensive production better than existing measures. The stated effects are found for secondary diamonds, which are lootable and related to opportunity costs of fighting, but not for primary diamonds, which are neither.

scholarly journals Violent Conflict and Behavior: A Field Experiment in Burundi

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 941-964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarten J Voors ◽  
Eleonora E. M Nillesen ◽  
Philip Verwimp ◽  
Erwin H Bulte ◽  
Robert Lensink ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Time Preferences ◽  
Altruistic Behavior ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Risk Seeking ◽  
Long Run ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Impact

We use a series of field experiments in rural Burundi to examine the impact of exposure to conflict on social, risk, and time preferences. We find that conflict affects behavior: individuals exposed to violence display more altruistic behavior towards their neighbors, are more risk-seeking, and have higher discount rates. Large adverse shocks can thus alter savings and investments decisions, and potentially have long-run consequences—even if the shocks themselves are temporary. (JEL C93, D12, D74, 012, 017, 018)

Food scarcity and state vulnerability: Unpacking the link between climate variability and violent unrest

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin T Jones ◽  
Eleonora Mattiacci ◽  
Bear F Braumoeller
Keyword(s):  
Climate Variability ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Regime Type ◽  
Structural Vulnerability ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Effect Of Food ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Increased scholarly focus on climate variability and its implications has given rise to a substantial literature on the relationship between climate-induced food insecurity and violent conflict. In this article, we theorize this relationship as contingent on the institutional and structural vulnerability of the state. States’ institutional and structural capabilities and constraints – such as the strength of the agricultural sector and domestic regime type – influence the probability that climate-induced food insecurity will translate into conflict, because they determine the degree to which countries are able to successfully address insecurity. We estimate the effect of food insecurity and state vulnerability on the occurrence of violent uprisings in Africa for the years 1991–2011. We find that these effects are interactive, with state vulnerability moderating the impact of food insecurity on the likelihood of violence. We also find that capable governance is an even better guarantor of peace than good weather. We conclude that a two-pronged approach that both combats the impact of climate variability on food insecurity and strengthens government institutions would be a much more effective strategy for preventing violent uprisings than either policy would be in isolation.

scholarly journals The Climate Conflict Trap: Examining the Impact of Climate Change on Violent Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Garfinkel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Security ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Terrorist Organizations ◽  
Change Impact ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Impact

As recently as 2019, international security officials reported that international state sponsors of terrorism, such as ISIL, were moving into Sub-Saharan Africa. The causal links between climate change and conflict, especially in an understudied and misunderstood region such as Sub-Saharan Africa, are often complicated and ill-defined. In reality, climate change does not unilaterally or unconditionally strengthen terrorist organizations and, by extension, civil conflict. The circumstances of climate change impact the trajectory of violent non-state armed groups in Sub-Saharan Africa through three primary mechanisms that intersect and interact with one another: natural resource instability, colonialism, and the intensity of intra-state tensions throughout a particular region. Through these three primary lenses, it is evident that, in Sub-Saharan Africa, the effects of climate change exacerbate conditions that, in turn, provide a unique, fertile environment for violent non-state armed groups to develop and thrive.

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