Narrative expansion and "terrorist" labeling: Discursive conflict escalation by state media

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...

Glaive: A State-Space Narrative Planner Supporting Intentionality and Conflict

Glaive is a state-space planner based on Hoffmann and Nebel’s Fast-Forward (2011) which solves the narrative planning problem defined by Riedl and Young (2010)— to construct a plan which achieves the author’s goals out of steps which are clearly motivated and goaloriented toward individual character goals. Glaive reasons about how characters cooperate and conflict based on causal structures and...

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

On the escalation and de-escalation of conflict

On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict behavior and repeated interaction on the allocation of effort between production and appropriation. Without repeated interaction, destruction of resources by defeated players can lead to lower appropriative efforts and high...

Escalation- and deescalation-oriented aspects in the media construction of the Bosnia conflict