Objectif Existing research has tended to equate conflict with violence, lumping all “non-conflict” situations together. This is unfortunate on theoretical and empirical grounds. Definitions of conflict highlight incompatibilities, which may motivate actors to resort to violence, but do not automatically generate violence and can be settled or managed in non-violent ways. Lumping together as “not violence” both cases without incompatibilities or agency and cases where actors pursue different strategies ultimately undermines our ability to understand conflict processes and test core arguments about conflict, strategies, and violence, and leaves us unable to assess whether the observed global decline in violence may reflect increasing use of alternative strategies, more state deterrence/accommodation, or fewer incompatibilities in the first place. This project will examine conflict in terms of incompatibilities between actors, where the specific structure of the incompatibilities and the strategies and interactions determine whether we see escalation to violence as well as alternative outcomes such as accommodation or regime change. It will extend my prior research on civil war and focus more clearly on actor motivations, alternative outcomes to conventional civil war, and take seriously non-violent strategies in conflict and protest. Whereas previous research has tended to study violent and non-violent conflict as separate phenomena, this project will focus on violent and non-violent actions as possible substitutes and compliment and explain variation across a range of alternative outcomes, as illustrated in the so-called Arab spring, where we see both non-violent protest and violent insurgencies, as well as state responses ranging from violent repression to accommodation. The project will also consider how transnational factors can influence the choice of strategies that actors make in conflicts. Champ scientifique social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsrevolutions Programme(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Thème(s) ERC-SG-SH2 - ERC Starting Grant - Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour Appel à propositions ERC-2012-StG_20111124 Voir d’autres projets de cet appel Régime de financement ERC-SG - ERC Starting Grant Institution d’accueil UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX Contribution de l’UE € 1 021 028,00 Adresse WIVENHOE PARK CO4 3SQ Colchester Royaume-Uni Voir sur la carte Région East of England Essex Essex Haven Gateway Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Chercheur principal Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (Prof.) Contact administratif Shereen Anderson (Mrs.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée Bénéficiaires (2) Trier par ordre alphabétique Trier par contribution de l’UE Tout développer Tout réduire UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX Royaume-Uni Contribution de l’UE € 1 021 028,00 Adresse WIVENHOE PARK CO4 3SQ Colchester Voir sur la carte Région East of England Essex Essex Haven Gateway Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Chercheur principal Kristian Skrede Gleditsch (Prof.) Contact administratif Shereen Anderson (Mrs.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée INSTITUTT FOR FREDSFORSKNING Norvège Contribution de l’UE € 153 448,00 Adresse HAUSMANNS GATE 3 0186 Oslo Voir sur la carte Région Norge Oslo og Viken Oslo Type d’activité Research Organisations Contact administratif Lars Even Andersen (Mr.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée