Coercion Influence Research Articles

Nipping an Insurgency in the Bud—Part I: Theory and Practice of Non-military Coercion in FYR Macedonia

This article is the first part of a study exploring the success and limits of external non-military coercion in intrastate conflict. This part seeks to understand the conditions and methods that made non-military coercion a useful conflict management strategy in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The study aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of non-military coercion as a reasonable alternative to military forms of intervention. Empirical data were drawn from a series of elite interviews and documentary accounts collected in three subsequent field trips. The analysis separates the conflict into three distinct phases, emergence, escalation and settlement, to illustrate the influence of coercion on the decision-making calculus of conflict participants, and outlines the coordinated use of positive inducements and pressures to portray the positive influence of non-military coercion on the de-escalation of interethnic violence.

Relationship between patients’ quality of life and coercion in psychiatric acute wards

The influence of coercion on quality of life (QoL) was investigated in 202 patients in acute psychiatric wards. There was no correlation between either subjective or objective coercion and QoL. Global Assessment of Functioning scores on improvement and insight were correlated with QoL.

Medical ethics and the judicial coerced treatment of sexual abusers

The increasing demand for judicial coerced treatment of sexual abusers constitutes a new challenge for mental health professionals. The discussed controversial ethical issues are the influence of coercion on the treatment, the motivation of patient as well as therapist, confidentiality and hormonal treatment. Social control is not the primary concern of therapists and any treatment must be beneficial to the individual patient. The coerced treatment of sexual abusers requests an agreement between psychiatric and judicial authorities with respect for their respective professional ethics.