Tag: Conflict
This course uses science fiction to understand politics
Nicole Pankiewicz, College of Coastal Georgia
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation...
Power struggles in nature can be more subtle, nuanced and strategic...
Lee Alan Dugatkin, University of Louisville
Scientists used to think power in animals played out in a tidy and...
Intuitions about justice are a consistent part of human nature across...
Daniel Sznycer, Oklahoma State University and Carlton Patrick, University of Central Florida
“Thou shalt not kill” may be the...
The US is worried about its critical minerals supply chains –...
Jordy Lee, Colorado School of Mines and Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines
When U.S. companies build military weapons...
Rats help clear minefields in Cambodia – and suspicion of the...
Darcie DeAngelo, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Editor’s note: Dr. Darcie DeAngelo is a medical anthropologist at the
Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity...
Nobel Peace Prize spotlights the links between hunger and conflict
Jessica Eise, Purdue University
The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the United Nations World Food Program for its efforts to combat hunger,...
The dark side of supportive relationships
Edward Lemay, University of Maryland and Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland
Imagine that you’ve had a heated argument with a co-worker, and you call up...
There’s a dark political history to language that strips people of...
William A. Donohue, Michigan State University
Dehumanizing language often precedes genocide.
One tragic example: Extreme dehumanizing language was a strong contributor to the 1994 genocide in...
EXPLORING NATURE
LA fires showed how much neighborliness matters for wildfire safety –...
Elizabeth A. Logan, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and William Deverell, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
