Essays about: "conflict onset"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 29 essays containing the words conflict onset.

  1. 16. Determinants of violence and escalation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sebastian Nilsson Qvist; [2019]
    Keywords : Militarized interstate disputes; civil-military relations; praetorianism; conflict behavior; conflict decision-making.; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Democratic peace theory, or DPT, has in recent academic studies had its explanatory power and validity questioned and examined. One of the contenders against DPT is civil-military relations. READ MORE

  3. 17. Youth Cohorts and the Risk of Conflict Recurrence: A Global Quantitative Analysis

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Eva Froneberg; [2019]
    Keywords : youth; youth bulge; demography; post-conflict; conflict recurrence;

    Abstract : While the role of youth in post-conflict settings has increasingly gained policy attention, systematic academic studies on this topic remain scarce. This research adds to existing literature by the youth bulge theory of conflict onset to a post-conflict setting. READ MORE

  4. 18. Unequal Hunger : Pathways to Armed Conflict Onset

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Samuel Tunfjord; [2019]
    Keywords : Food Insecurity; Horizontal Inequality; Armed Conflict Onset;

    Abstract : In many conflict-ridden countries, food insecurity prevails. However, the relationship between food insecurity and armed conflict onset is a complex one, and scholarly attention has increasingly been directed towards furthering our understanding of its nature. READ MORE

  5. 19. Mediating with God : Quantitative Analysis on Mediation and Religiosity - What effect does severity of conflict have on mediation onset in religious conflicts?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Emma Janson; [2019]
    Keywords : Religious conflict; Mediation; Religious incompatibilities;

    Abstract : The number of conflicts with religious dimensions has been steadily increasing over the last few decades. Previous research has found that religious conflicts are less likely to end by mediation whilst little research has been done as to what makes them initiate mediation. READ MORE

  6. 20. QUALITY OF GOVERMENT AND INTERNAL CONFLICT A large N study of developing countries

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Fredrik Pettersson; [2018-09-14]
    Keywords : quality of government; impartiality; institutional trust; governance; good governance; political institutions; administration; bureaucracy; internal conflict; new wars; riots; protests; demonstrations; security; peace; corruption; rule of law; political science;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the effect of quality of government on low-intensity internal conflict, and how this relationship could be conditioned by the extent of ethnic division, in a context of developing and newly industrialised countries. It hypothesises that (H1) impartial bureaucracy reduces internal conflict, and that (H2) this effect is diminished in highly ethnically divided societies, and finally test these propositions empirically by using data from the Quality of Government Institute’s Expert Survey and the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED). READ MORE