PCE 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Peace And Conflict Studies, Validity, Policy Debate
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9/3: peace studies: aims to understand the causes of violence and find ways to limit or prevent it, objective component: researching violence, normative component: preventing violence, political violence. Interstate war data: 95 wars, france most wars since 1816, disputes and wars, all wars start as a dispute, dispute, threats of force, displays of force, uses of force. Institutional constraints: more likely to back down, people don"t like war. 9/24: mediation, a third party helps two parties negotiate a dispute without physical force, reactive, conflict management, voluntary, various actors: states, individuals, ios, etc, non-legal and non-violent, ex. Israel and lebanon: kenya and somalia, chad and sudan, dem rep of the congo and rwanda, does mediation help promote peaceful settlements, beardsley (2008, how they create peace, and how much. Information provision: a needs mediator"s help communicating with b, leveraging costs, mediator imposes costs on both sides, monitoring and enforcement, state relations change over time.
