In many instances of potential violent or non-violent conflict the future strategic positions of adversaries are very … different when there is open conflict than when there is settlement. In such environments we show that, as the future becomes … more important, open conflict becomes more likely than settlement. We demonstrate the theoretical robustness of this …

and outside agents. Second, unlike both the literature on conflict and bargaining, we integrate these two strands of the … literature, so that we can endogenously derive the conditions under which community-firm interactions result in conflict or …