In this article, we examine the implementation of mediation in domestic violence cases in Nicaragua as a case study of the transnational movement of alternative conflict resolution within rule of law reforms across the world. Unlike scholarship about mediation in the United States, the effects...

In recent debates, morality or social norms have been proposed as an instrument to reduce conflict behavior. As the argument goes, moral people will not engage in socially not-tolerated behavior or, less so than amoral people. Analyzing this question in the framework of contest theory, we find...

I study information disclosure as a means to create conflict. A sender has information about two parties' relative strength and seeks to keep them engaged in a war of attrition for as long as possible. In the unique Markov Perfect Equilibrium, the sender employs “shifting rhetoric”: she...