Civil War Obscura: Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty

Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War

What motivated men to risk death in the most horrific war in U.S. history when pay was low and irregular and military punishment strategies were weak? In such a situation creating group loyalty by promoting social capital is of paramount importance and in the Civil War was the cement of both armies. We find that individual and company socio-economic and demographic characteristics, ideology, an...

From civil war to forensic psychiatry.

I was at the 2012 American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law meeting in Montreal last fall when Dr. Stephen Xenakis spoke on the role of psychiatry in 21st century warfare. He described torture in the military and the role of psychiatrists as leaders at times that exacted heavy costs personally and professionally. He discussed the moral dilemmas psychiatrists face in working with the military a...

Violence and Displacement in Civil War. Evidence from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

This paper explores the relationship between violence and displacement during civil war focusing on two different forms of population movements (i.e. incoming and outgoing), and two different forms of violence (i.e. direct and indirect). The paper explores the relationship between displacement and violence at the local level in the context of a civil war fought conventionally using a novel data...

Civil War in Cyberspace

In der Informationsgesellschaft nehmen auch in Deutschland aggressive und kriminelle Handlungen (Computermißbrauch) ausweislich der jährlichen Kriminalstatistik [BMI02] zu. Weniger Bedeutung wird in Deutschland bisher politisch–motivierten Aktionen beigemessen. Weltweit werden klassische Verfahren wie ziviler Ungehorsam, innere Unruhen und Bürgerkrieg zunehmend durch IT–gestützte Verfahren ergä...

Globalization and Civil War