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A conflict may be protracted even if, for example, a contested piece of land could theoretically be divided. The dynamics of a conflict may involve a repeated action–reaction sequence leading to escalation of violence as well as increased military mobilization and enlargement of the conflict by involving neighbor territories and external ...
Peace and conflict studies is a social science field that identifies and analyzes violent and nonviolent behaviors as well as the structural mechanisms attending conflicts (including social conflicts), to understand those processes which lead to a more desirable human condition. [1]
People's war or protracted people's war is a Maoist military strategy. ... Conflicts in the following list are failed and successful wars labelled as people's wars by ...
In the complex system approach to peace and armed conflict, the social systems of armed conflict are viewed as complex [1] dynamical systems. [2] The study of positive and negative feedback processes, attractors and system dimensionality, phase transitions and emergence is seen as providing improved understanding of the conflicts and of the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of interventions ...
The Philippine government and the country’s communist rebels have agreed to resume talks aimed at ending decades of armed conflict, one of Asia's longest, Norwegian mediators announced Tuesday ...
The Chechen-Russian conflict is one of the longest and most protracted conflicts in modern history, spanning three centuries. [12] Its origins date back to 1785, [13] when the Chechens fought against Russian expansionism into the Caucasus. The Caucasus War was fought between 1817 and 1864.
Assad's chief military supporters have been Russia and Iran. Russia entered the conflict in 2015 to shore up Assad's struggling regime. Russia's leader Vladimir Putin wanted to assert his country ...
The Cyprus problem, also known as the Cyprus conflict, Cyprus issue, Cyprus dispute, or Cyprus question, is an ongoing dispute between the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot community in the north of the island of Cyprus, where troops of the Republic of Turkey are deployed. This dispute is an example of a protracted social conflict.