CONFLICT
AND VIOLENCE

Most of my early precomputer theoretical and empirical work was on conflict, violence and war, the most important of which I will be adding here as I am able to scan them into the computer. The material included here deals generally with conflict and peace; that specifically relating to the democratic peace is included on that theme page. The conclusion from all this research is that the more freedom people have, the less their collective violence and war.

THE CONFLICT HELIX

• Chapter: nature of conflict [11]
• Chapter: conflict in the sociocultural field [11]
• Chapter: the elements of social conflict [11]
• Chapter: the process of conflict [11]
• Chapter: the conflict helix and predicting war

PSYCHOLOGY OF CONFLICT [12]

• Chapter: aggression
• Chapter: frustration, deprivation, and aggression
• Chapter: other causes/conditions--misperception, cognitive dissonance, expectations, and righteousness

SOCIOLOGY OF CONFLICT

• Chapter: societies, politics, and conflict [11]
  • Chapter: testing the relationship between societies, politics, and conflict [11]
  • Article: is social pluralism and diversity correlated with collective violence?
• Chapter: Marxism and class conflict [12]
• Chapter: social distance--same and other; similarity and difference [12]
• Chapter: other causes/conditions: cross-pressures, overpopulation, anomie [12]
• Chapter: and social process [12]

INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT [13]

• THE INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT HELIX
  • Chapter: latent conflict
  • Chapter: trigger, will, and preparations
  • Chapter: the balancing of power
  • Chapter: comparative dynamics

• THE BALANCING OF POWERS: DYNAMICS, CAUSES, CONDITIONS, AND HELIX
  • Chapter: introduction to propositions and evidence
  • Chapter: empirical conflict dynamics
  • Chapter: causes and conditions of international conflict and war
  • Chapter: ending conflict and war
  • Chapter: the international conflict helix
  • Chapter: conclusions on conflict and war
  • Article: "A Catastrophe Theory Model Of The Conflict Helix, With Tests"
  • Article: "The Conflict Helix and the Probability of a Korean War,"

PHILOSOPHY OF CONFLICT [12]

• Chapter: opposition, determinism, and inevitability
• Chapter: and intentional humanism

PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION [14]

• Chapter: what is peace?
• Chapter: alternative concepts of peace
• Chapter: incrementalism
• Chapter: principles of conflict resolution
• Chapter: the positive peace principle

CONCLUSIONS ON CONFLICT, VIOLENCE, AND WAR [13]

• Chapter: principles of peace and conflict
• Chapter: and intentional humanism

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ROOTS OF WAR

• Knowing the Roots of War: Analyses And Interpretations Of Six Centuries Of Warfare (Collected Papers) By Frank H. Denton, Ph.D., 2003: entire.

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The figure in the upper right is from Figure 1 of "The Conflict Helix and the Probability of a Korean War".

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