Rethinking the concept of intercultural conflict: Italian returnees’ attitudes towards others during a cultural conflict

The cultural contagion of conflict.

Anecdotal evidence abounds that conflicts between two individuals can spread across networks to involve a multitude of others. We advance a cultural transmission model of intergroup conflict where conflict contagion is seen as a consequence of universal human traits (ingroup preference, outgroup hostility; i.e. parochial altruism) which give their strongest expression in particular cultural con...

The biology of cultural conflict

Although culture is usually thought of as the collection of knowledge and traditions that are transmitted outside of biology, evidence continues to accumulate showing how biology and culture are inseparably intertwined. Cultural conflict will occur only when the beliefs and traditions of one cultural group represent a challenge to individuals of another. Such a challenge will elicit brain proce...

Rethinking surgical care in conflict.

The provision of surgical assistance in confl ict is often associated with care for victims of violence. Images of the war wounded from bullets, bomb-blasts, and other violent assaults often feature prominently in the mass media. The discipline has been guided by military surgeons from the developed world who aim to develop approaches that use the latest surgical technologies in war zones. Howe...

Law and Cultural Conflict

Cross-Cultural Conflict

Conflict is competition by groups or individuals over incompatible goals, scarce resources, or the sources of power needed to acquire them. This competition is also determined by individuals’ perceptions of goals, resources, and power, and such perceptions may differ greatly among individuals. One determinant of perception is culture, the socially inherited, shared and learned ways of living po...