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Developments in conflict analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

Michael Nicholson
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Conflict analysis has been making steady strides over the last decade. Admittedly it is not easy to define 'conflict analysis', 'conflict studies', or any of the other phrases used as near synonyms. 'Conflict and co-operation' subsumes virtually all social interactions. Roughly it can be said to be characterized by two themes: first, that conflict is a generic phenomenon which appears at all levels of social system from the interpersonal to the inter-national; second, that social phenomena can be analysed by the methods of the classical social sciences which primarily means the formulation of testable theoretical generalizations and their testing.

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Review Articles
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Review of International Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 77 - 85
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1988

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