Capturing the Complexity of Conflict: Dealing with Violent Ethnic Conflicts of the Post-Cold War Era

Abstract

Violent conflict and war - old problems (still!) in need of solution a multilevel framework and pretheory of violent conflict and war accessing violent conflict and war accessing violent conflict and war - a simulation-based design modelling violent conflict and war validated research design - relationship of PDS findings to other studies implications for theory - a generic theory of violent conflict and war implications for practice - dealing with ethnic conflict in post-Cold War Europe violent conflict and war - further implications for theory, research and practice. Appendices: basic manual and related materials for the prisoners' dilemma situation (PDS) PDS participants' questionnaire operational definitions comparisons between relationships in the PDS models and corresponding relationships in other studies.