[P2P-F] Fwd: " emotion as a resource akin to guns and money " in Post-Cold War Interventions and Conflicts

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
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: "econowmix at googlegroups.com" <econowmix at googlegroups.com>, "
op-n-m at googlegroups.com" <op-n-m at googlegroups.com>

*" 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.

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