Flashcards on Conflict Analysis: Theories and Dynamics
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Protracted Social Conflict and Transnational Conflict Dynamics
16 cards
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Question: What is a core consequence of exclusion across states in protracted social conflict (PSC)?
Answer: Exclusion and inequality generate crises of legitimacy, contributing to protracted social conflict.
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Question: Why are protracted social conflicts (PSC) often concentrated in developing countries?
Answer: Because developing countries frequently experience rapid population growth and inherited colonial systems of repression and emergency powers that perp
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Question: How can international linkages sustain or escalate protracted social conflicts?
Answer: Economic dependency in the international system, military clientelism, and external support can sustain or escalate conflicts; PSC sources can lie bot
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Question: What are the three process determinants of PSC dynamics?
Answer: 1) Communal actors and strategies (leadership, mobilization, group formation, guerrilla); 2) State actions (repression, accommodation); 3) Built-in me
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Question: How do narratives, myths, and antagonism contribute to PSC?
Answer: Exclusionary and antagonistic histories reinforce group identities; demonizing propaganda and dehumanization justify discriminatory policies, violence
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Question: What is the 'greed vs grievance' critique of PSC explanations?
Answer: Critics (e.g., Collier, Hoeffler, Fearon, Laitin) argue civil wars may be driven more by opportunities to gain money and resources than by injustice,
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Question: What is the feminist critique of conventional PSC approaches?
Answer: Feminist critics (e.g., Cordula Reimann) argue conflict resolution often ignores gender inequalities and treats women mainly as victims rather than as
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Question: How does Irene Santiago adapt PSC with a gender lens?
Answer: She argues a gendered understanding reshapes security and development needs, access to decision-making, and identity acceptance, linking violent patri
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Question: What change does globalization bring to PSC thinking, forming transnational conflict (TNC)?
Answer: Globalization connects local conflicts to global processes through transnational connectors, linking local and global levels in both directions and tr
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Question: What is the Transnational Conflict Framework and its purpose?
Answer: An analytical structure (not a theory) that brings together multilevel and multifactorial analysis and captures dynamic escalation and de-escalation u