Who can give me some advice to measure conflict norms or papers about how to do it? Thanks very much!
HI, Check out the Uppsala Conflict database. That may be helpful.
http://www.ucdp.uu.se/gpdatabase/search.php
Best regards,
Anders
Hello,
Those sites are great. You can also see about prevention and prediciton of state failure from conflict: http://www.cfr.org/thinktank/cpa/ (i recommend the subgroup: http://www.cfr.org/global/global-conflict-tracker/p32137#!/) and http://library.fundforpeace.org/fsi.
Of course the WHO, WB and Kaiser (http://kff.org/globaldata/) offer the best for clinical details from conflict.
Hi,
I have found the attached article to provide an extremely helpful overview of relevant approaches from within the Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) sub-field of IR. The article describes actor general and comparative theoretical approaches as more typical of the Cold War era and actor specific approaches as more contemporary -- and their combination as resonant with the Perestroika turn. To summarize:
Actor general & Cold War/classical FPA era approaches described:
Comparative Foreign Policy (CFP) unified theoretical measurement tools -- including FEWAMS (Early Warning and Monitoring System), CASCON (Computer-Aided Systems for Handling Information on Local Conflicts), CACIS (Computer-Aided Conflict Information System), and XAIDS (Crisis Management Executive Decision Aids)
* Events Data sets used: DDIR [Data Development for InternationalResearch] Project of the NSF), WEIS (the World Event/Interaction Survey), COPDAB, CREON (Comparative Research on the Events of Nations)
*The paper describes the four most ambitious integrated multilevel projects as being those of Michael Brecher and his associates of the IBA Project -- of DON, of CREON, and of Harold Guetzkow’s INS. It also discusses, in the context of the classic FPA era, approaches associated with: operation code frameworks, orientation and leader behaviour analysis, perception and images, national role perception, bounded rationality, culture and socialization.
Actor Specific -- Contemporary FPA era described:
As prioritizing: process tracing, content analysis, agent-based computational models and simulations, culture analysis, decision making, leader characteristics, culture and identity, national role perception, methodology, and integration.
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Also, The research group “Conflict and Normative Change: Norm Conflicts in Global Governance” might be of interest. See:
http://www.hsfk.de/Conflict-and-normative-change-Norm-Conflicts-in-G.850.0.html?&L=1
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I am interested in exploring situated agency (as a driver of cultural practice) as explanans -- I am working within an anti-foundationalist theoretical framework and hence privileging qualitative techniques for analysis.
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