Conflict Resolution vs. Conflict Escalation in Online Markets

Conflict Coverage and Conflict Escalation

Though still existent traditional state propaganda as characteristic during the World Wars (see Lasswell, 1927; Knightly, 1975; and chapters 2 and 4 of this volume) has been partly delegated to professional PR agencies in recent conflicts (Kunczik, 1990). During both the Gulf War (MacAlthur, 1992) and the Bosnia conflict (Beham. 1996), the role of PR agencies became so massive, and filters used...

The Conflict Escalation Resolution (CONFER) Database

Conflict is usually defined as a high level of disagreement taking place when individuals act on incompatible goals, interests, or intentions. Research in human sciences has recognized conflict as one of the main dimensions along which an interaction is perceived and assessed. Hence, automatic estimation of conflict intensity in naturalistic conversations would be a valuable tool for the advanc...

Conflict Resolution in Online Databases*

Shared online databases, such as Google Fusion Tables or Quickbase, allow non-programmer community members to collaboratively maintain and browse data. While community members may believe in conflicting facts (due to conflicting sources, measurements or opinions), current online databases do not yet offer support for the management of data conflicts. Ricolla is a novel online database that trea...

Conflict Trajectories 1 Running head: CONFLICT ESCALATION TRAJECTORIES Studying Trajectories of Conflict Escalation

Conflict resolution

We introduce a new method for solving systems of linear inequalities over the rationals—the conflict resolution method. The method successively refines an initial assignment with the help of newly derived constraints until either the assignment becomes a solution of the system or a trivially unsatisfiable constraint is derived. We show that this method is correct and terminating. Our experiment...