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Socio-psychological barriers to peace making: An empirical examination within the Israeli Jewish Society
Halperin, Eran; Bar-Tal, Daniel - In: Journal of Peace Research 48 (2011) 5, pp. 637-651
depicts the functioning of the socio-psychological barriers to conflict resolution, an empirical study was conducted among a … nationwide representative sample of Jews in Israel, within the context of the Middle Eastern conflict. The reported study … readiness to compromise through the mediation of the conflict-related societal beliefs (e.g. victimhood, delegitimization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372052
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Institutions of Water Management and Conflict Resolution in Lesotho on a Local Level: An empirical study of displacement areas of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project
Bildhaeuser, Sophia - Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex - 2010
for conflict resolution. Although these efforts seem to be well intended, they often fail in their actual implementation … second area of non-violent conflict. According to the people interviewed, the conflicts are basically between the authorities … and the displacees, in rare cases between host communities and the displaced people. The third potential area of conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541395
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Distance rationalizability of scoring rules
Can B. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2013
Collective decision making problems can be seen as finding an outcome that is closest to a concept of consensus. 1 introduced Closeness to Unanimity Procedure as a first example to this approach and showed that the Borda rule is the closest to unanimity under swap distance a.k.a the 2 distance....
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Claim games for estate division problems
Vermeulen A.J.; Schröder M.J.W.; Peters H.J.M. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2013
This paper considers the estate division problem from a non-cooperative perspective. The integer claim game initiated by ONeill 1982 and extended by Atlamaz et al. 2011 is generalized by considering different sharing rules to divide every interval among the claimants. For problems with an estate...
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Insurgents in motion: Counterinsurgency and insurgency relocation in Iraq
Wong P-H. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
Recent studies in general are positive regarding the effectiveness of US counterinsurgency programs in Iraq. The right mix of coercion, ethnic strategy, and public goods provision, it is argued, makes Iraqis less likely to rebel against the US army and the Iraqi government, thus reducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010798446
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Mediation Style and Crisis Outcomes
Beardsley, Kyle C.; Quinn, David M.; Biswas, Bidisha; … - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 50 (2006) 1, pp. 58-86
This study focuses on the varying effectiveness of three mediation styles—facilitation, formulation, and manipulation—on international crises. Effectiveness is assessed in terms of three outcome variables: formal agreement, post-crisis tension reduction, and contribution to crisis...
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THE EVOLUTION OF CONFLICT AS A BEHAVIOR PROCESS WITHIN GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT
Todarita, Elida-Tomita - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 2 (2010) 12, pp. 24-24
potential for the development andmanifestation of conflict. When differentiation is coupled to a great extent with … interdependence, thepotential for conflict increases significantly. Also, always be considered in settling conflicts thatoften occur … conflict. In this paper, will present the theoreticalaspects regarding the conflict, classification, patterns of events and …
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Mediating War and Peace: Mass Media and International Conflict
Joseph, Teresa - In: India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs 70 (2014) 3, pp. 225-240
conflicts. Keeping in perspective the potential capability of the news media in situations of conflict and conflict resolution …€˜peace journalism’ as an alternative to conventional news coverage of conflict. …
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Balance of power and the propensity of conflict
Herbst, Luisa; Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian - Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche … - 2014
We study the role of an imbalance in fighting strengths when players bargain in the shadow of conflict. Our … experimental results suggest: In a simple bargaining game with an exogenous mediation proposal, the likelihood of conflict is … independent of the balance of power. If bargaining involves endogenous demand choices, however, the likelihood of conflict is …
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Recirpcity in the shadow of Threat
Caruso, Raul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents … instrument to affect the outcome of the conflict. The second instrument is assumed to capture positive investments in ‘conflict … extremely large there is no room for cooperation and a conflict trap emerges; (b) whenever the degree of asymmetry falls within …
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