MEDIATIONIN POLITICAL CONFLICTS

Political ecology of Jharkhand conflicts

Although India’s Jharkhand movement resists classification as either an ethnic or an environmental movement, it has, at different times, mobilised clear elements of both with frequently violent outcomes. This paper examines the movement from a political ecology perspective and focuses on violence arising from natural resource-related grievances, notably land alienation, forest policy and employ...

Mobilizing for Change: Simulating Political Movements in Armed Conflicts

Theories on the establishment and propagation of political movements through mobilization have emerged and evolved over the last half century. Among the major theoretical frameworks that have been advanced are resource mobilization theory, political process theory, and culture theory. However, despite these developments, relatively few methodological approaches have applied bottom-up computatio...

The Role of the News Media in Unequal Political Conflicts

The influence of religion on the political and cultural conflicts of dynasties of Gilan

By the emergence of Karkiya dynasty in eastern Gilan and their emphasis on Zaydi Shiite religion, the intellectual activities of followers of other religions and sects became so restricted. Rulers of this dynasty did not take an appeasing and tolerating approach toward opponents who were parts of the religious culture of Gilan, so that followers of other religions and sects were fired from Gila...

Information in Conflicts Forschungsschwerpunkt Markt Und Politische Ökonomie Research Area Markets and Political Economy Information in Conflicts

Information in Conflicts by Karl Wärneryd We consider a two-player contest for a prize of common but uncertain value. We show that less resources are spent in equilibrium if one party is privately informed about the value of a prize than if either both agents are informed or neither agent is informed. Furthermore, the uninformed agent is ex ante strictly more likely to win the prize than is the...