Browsing by Subject "Conflict"
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An Integrative Solution to the Conflict over Conflict
(2009)The value of task-related conflict to team effectiveness continues to generate controversy in organizational studies. I argue that this debate reflects as much differences in the conceptualization of conflict by scholars ... -
Darfur, Conflict and Climate Change
(2008-04-25)The issue of climate change poses to be one of the most pressing challenges facing community of nation states in the 21st century. While both developed and developing nations will feel the far-reaching impacts of climate ... -
Evaluating the Motivation and Feasibility Theory in Predicting the Onset and Severity of Civil Conflict
(2013-04-30)This paper looks at 187 countries from 1960-2004 and explores the economic indicators of the onset and the severity of civil conflicts, where civil conflicts are described as small clashes that result in 25 or more battle ... -
Fully Committed? Religiously Committed State Populations and International Conflict
(2018)This dissertation project argues that high levels of religious commitment within a population-that is, high levels of importance attached to religious identities and ideas-can increase a state's propensity for initiating ... -
Interactions of Attention, Stimulus Conflict, and Multisensory Processing
(2012)At every moment in life we are receiving input from multiple sensory modalities. We are limited, however, in the amount of information we can selectively attend to and fully process at any one time. The ability to integrate ... -
Schools’ Role in Shaping Youth Collective Memory of Conflict and Experiences of Sectarianism in Lebanon
(2015-01-08)This study analyzes Lebanese and Palestinian youths’ memories of sectarian conflict, their sources of knowledge, and how their memories shape their experiences of current sectarian divides. From 1975 until 1990, Lebanon ... -
Secession and Survival: Nations, States and Violent Conflict
(2009)Secession is a watershed event not only for the new state that is created and the old state that is dissolved, but also for neighboring states, proximate ethno-political groups and major powers. This project examines the ... -
The Distant Reach of the Middle East: How Perceptions of Conflict Affect Jewish Israeli American and Palestinian American Identity
(2008-04-17)This interpretive study examines how narratives and collective memories about the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict affect the identities of Jewish Israeli Americans and Palestinian Americans today. In contrast to Charles ... -
The neural dynamics of stimulus and response conflict processing as a function of response complexity and task demands.
(Neuropsychologia, 2016-04)Both stimulus and response conflict can disrupt behavior by slowing response times and decreasing accuracy. Although several neural activations have been associated with conflict processing, it is unclear how specific any ... -
UNDERSTANDING HUMAN-LARGE CARNIVORE CONFLICT IN CHOBE, BOTSWANA
(2008-04-28)Large carnivores most often get in conflicts with people because they compete for resources that humans require-space and food. Throughout Africa, large carnivores have been eliminated or significantly reduced because of ...
