POLS2123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Structural Violence
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Introduction: demmers behind every analysis of violent conflict is a set of assumptions , lack of grounded and critical analysis of violence and war results in misreading and inaccurate strategies and interventions . Zones: calculating battle deaths is subjective, people have an interest in numbers. Real world" implications: correlates of war project = 1000 battle deaths in a single year, uppsala conflict data projects = 25 battle deaths per year with cumulative total of. Analysing conflict: a conflict is any situation in which two or more parties perceive that they possess mutually incompatible goals , 3 component parts, goal incompatibility. Actors think that the realization of one or more of their objectives is blocked by the other party"s attempt to reach its own respective goal. Starting point from which a conflict becomes manifest. Goals future outcomes/conditions/end states which often have intrinsic values for members of parties defined are as consciously desired: conflict attitudes.
