---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 9:58 PM Subject: " emotion as a resource akin to guns and money " in Post-Cold War Interventions and Conflicts To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, " [email protected]" <[email protected]> *" emotion as a resource akin to guns and money. " ...* http://web.mit.edu/ssp/research/Civil%20War/Western_Intervention.html *" Within the array of post-Cold War interventions in violent ethnic conflicts, interveners attempt to structure a cooperative “game” among warring groups. At certain junctures, different actors use emotions to change the set of actors, reshape preferences, and alter the rules of this game. Actors have a range of actions available to trigger emotions, including: violence against persons, desecration of religious sites, destruction of property, inflammatory propaganda, and public demonstrations. This project treats emotion as a resource akin to guns and money. In order to explain a pattern of provocations under intervention, social scientists need to develop hypotheses that consider both structural resources and constraints and the distribution of emotions on which political entrepreneurs might play. If we can treat emotions as a resource, we may better understand the patterns, forms, and escalation of violence and thus why interventions often fail even despite a heavy foreign presence. "* * Related Publications:* Roger Petersen, Understanding Western Intervention in the Twenty-First Century: Rationality, Fear, and Loathing in the Balkans (currently under review) Roger Petersen and Sarah Zukerman, “Revenge or Reconciliation: Theory and Method of Emotions in the Context of Colombia’s Peace Process,” International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law, 2009. Roger Petersen and Evangelos Liaras, “Countering Fear in War: The Strategic Use of Emotion in Thucydides,” Journal of Military Ethics 5, no. 4 (2006): 317-333. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/