Ethnic Conflict and Socioeconomic Development in the Niger-Delta Region of Nigeria …Most of these ethnic conflicts take place in Africa, the former Soviet Union, and Latin America, with Africa accounting for roughly 50 percent of these varied conflicts. In Nigeria, the…
Troubled Peace: Explaining Political Violence in Post-Conflict Settings …these findings to contemporary settings, by developing a topology of post-conflict violence, by mapping cases of post-conflict violence across the world since 1945, and by testing my theoretical findings in…
The Carceral State in Conflict: Between Reconciliation and Radicalization This study uses the concept of the carceral state as a key to understanding national and colonial conflict by unraveling the connections between the management of conflict and the management…
Mental Representations of Attachment in Twins: A Study of Monozygotic Female Pairs Concordant and Discordant for Abnormally Aggressive Behavior …are substantially influenced by shared environmental influences and are associated with current levels of aggressive behavior, as well as histories of arrest and symptoms of conduct disorder. The Adult Attachment…
Diaspora and Conflict: The Liberians of Staten Island …knowledge, transmitted back home inasmuch as I saw no evidence of Staten Islanders funding conflict in Liberia. The conflict was thus incubated in exile. The second research product was an…
The Impact of Climate Change on Conflict “[W]hile climate change is not the primary driver of conflict, it can exacerbate conflict risks, particularly in regions with weak governance, high inequality, and political instability,” Vally Koubi writes in…
Fueling the Fires: How Corruption and Conflict Keep Each Other Burning …Fueling the Fires: How Corruption and Conflict Keep Each Other Burning, which examines the “vicious cycle” of conflict and corruption, using examples from Afghanistan, Guatemala, South Sudan, Myanmar, and beyond….
A Political Science Perspective on Teaching about Violence …violence, I have found, is to ask them to write a term paper in which they diagnose and “solve” their own violent conflict. In my course on ethnic conflict, I…
Some Things Psychologists Think They Know About Aggression and Violence …violence are mostly to be found in individual differences that tell us little about group conflict. Rather the origins of group conflict are in the power of group dynamics, and…
Epigenetic Influences on the Development of the Serotonin System: A Mechanism of Risk for Chronic Aggressive Behaviors in Humans? …We used the so-called social intruder paradigm, in which a rat is placed in the cage of another rat, thereby creating interpersonal conflict, which is considered an animal analogue to…