Doing Conflict Research through a Multi-Method Lens

2013 ◽  
pp. 119-142
Author(s):  
Daniel Druckman
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Research

A Review of Several Measurement Issues in Work-Family Conflict Research

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy A. Lambert ◽  
Yvette M. Nemeth ◽  
Starr L. Daniell ◽  
Sarah Elizabeth Strang ◽  
Lillian T. Eby ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Measurement Issues ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Conflict Research

Policing and Political Violence

2021 ◽  
pp. 002200272110130
Author(s):  
Kristine Eck ◽  
Courtenay R. Conrad ◽  
Charles Crabtree
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Conflict Studies ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Conflict Processes ◽  
State Security ◽  
New Research ◽  
Conflict Research

The police are often key actors in conflict processes, yet there is little research on their role in the production of political violence. Previous research provides us with a limited understanding of the part the police play in preventing or mitigating the onset or escalation of conflict, in patterns of repression and resistance during conflict, and in the durability of peace after conflicts are resolved. By unpacking the role of state security actors and asking how the state assigns tasks among them—as well as the consequences of these decisions—we generate new research paths for scholars of conflict and policing. We review existing research in the field, highlighting recent findings, including those from the articles in this special issue. We conclude by arguing that the fields of policing and conflict research have much to gain from each other and by discussing future directions for policing research in conflict studies.

scholarly journals A structural-relational analysis of party dynamics in proxy wars

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Rauta
Keyword(s):  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Strategic Interaction ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Power Cost ◽  
Relational Analysis ◽  
Analytical Stability ◽  
Proxy War ◽  
Novel Variant ◽  
Tentative Explanation ◽  
Conflict Research

Proxy wars are still under-represented in conflict research and a key cause for this is the lack of conceptual and terminological care. This article seeks to demonstrate that minimising terminological diffusion increases overall analytical stability by maximising conceptual rigour. The argument opens with a discussion on the terminological ambivalence resulting from the haphazard employment of labels referencing the parties involved in proxy wars. Here, the article introduces an analytical framework with a two-fold aim: to reduce label heterogeneity, and to argue in favour of understanding proxy war dynamics as overlapping dyads between a Beneficiary, a Proxy, and a Target. This is then applied to the issues of defining and theorising party dynamics in proxy wars. It does so by providing a structural-relational analysis of the interactions between the above-mentioned parties based on strategic interaction. It presents a tentative explanation of the proxy relationship by correlating the Beneficiary’s goal towards the Target with the Proxy’s preference for the Beneficiary. In adding the goal-preference relational heuristic, the article advances the recent focus on strategic interaction with a novel variant to explanations based on interest, power, cost–benefit considerations or ideology.

scholarly journals Determinism in the mountains: The ongoing belief in the bellicosity of 'mountain people'

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Pickering
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Mountainous Regions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Conflict Research ◽  
Positive Light

It has long been argued that mountains have an effect on wars. While some research understands this chiefly in physical terms, other research looks at the effect that mountains have on human nature. This article looks at the two thousand year history of the term 'mountain people.' It explores how the belief has emerged that living in mountainous regions changes people to the degree that it makes them more likely to engage in conflict. It also explores how mountain people can be seen in a more positive light, but this perspective is often ignored by both popular media and conflict research. It makes the case that the foundations upon which perceptions of 'mountain people' are based are rather shaky and somewhat misleading for empirical conflict research.

ОСНОВНЫЕ ЗАДАЧИ И ВИДЫ МОДЕРАЦИИ КАК ПРИКЛАДНОГО СПОСОБА ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ И ТЕХНОЛОГИИ УРЕГУЛИРОВАНИЯ КОНФЛИКТА

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
А. Ф. Нагайчук ◽  
А. Ахмедов ◽  
Н. В. Филатова
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Research Technology ◽  
Political Interaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Conflict Research

Moderation is considered in this article as a complex of social and political approaches. This article highlights the variety of aspects of moderation: essential, research, regulatory, and resolving. The actualization of different types of moderation relates to the problem of unending emergency and reproduction of the dangerous conflict forms, despite the existence of the diversity of modern regulating socio-political conflict technologies. Such dominant conflict management applied technologies as arbitration, negotiation, mediation, and facilitation are often inefficient in the regulation of complex and large-scale conflicts in the social-political sphere, because of the absence of deep and timely problem research, furthermore, the absence of technologies scientific development and conceptualization, useful for such regulation. This problem is particularly acute in the following situations: conflict active faze and escalation, non-availability of conciliation, complex and multidimensional conflict subject, global transformation of modern society values, constant mutation of various confrontation forms. Thus, the article aim is to analyze and find out the moderation potentiality in conflict research and regulation, along with attention to moderator and moderation stylistics. Moderation today is both a pedagogical, managerial, and research technology, able to solve not only the entire range of applied problems of modern conflict science, but to work with the conflict through the whole technology complex. The moderation can become the most optimal way to study and regulate various types and forms of conflict in socio-political interaction, because of its long practical experience in conducting research in the form of focus groups in different areas and situations, on a par of its serious scientific and applied social-political potentiality.

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