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Property concerns conflicts – both conflicts between individuals and conflicts of interest. Conflicts between individuals have long been the paradigmatic property focus. According to this view, property debates circle around issues of autonomy and productive competition. But this is an impoverished view. In this Article, we shift attention to conflicts of interest. By helping people manage conflicts of interest, a well-governed property system balances interdependence with autonomy and productive cooperation with productive competition. We identify three mechanisms woven throughout property law that help manage conflicts of interest: (1) internalization of externalities; (2) democratization of management; and (3) de-escalation of transactions. We show that property law predictably selects among these mechanisms depending on the ratio of economic to social benefits that people seek from a group resource. When economic concerns predominate, property law typically uses contribution-based allocations of rights and responsibilities mediated by formal, foreground procedures; while at the social end of the spectrum we tend to see more egalitarian substantive rules operating in an informal, background safety net.

Part I: Contexts; Counting Africa's conflicts (and their casualties); The terrain of struggle -- Part II: Ingredients; Neopatrimonialism; Resources; Sovereignty; Ethnicity; Religion; Part III: Responses; Organization-building; Peacemaking; Peace operations; Aid

This article analyzes the association between civil conflicts and educational achievement by studying the Turkish case. It combines the 2005 university entrance exam scores of more than 1.6 million students and a newly constructed data set on the casualties of the Turkish–Kurdish conflict to study the association between the conflict and educational achievement of Turkish students. The results reveal a significant negative association. Combined with the already well-established positive links between education and various measures of socioeconomic development like economic growth, social equality, and public health, the results in this article demonstrate that education is one of the channels through which civil conflicts damage the well-being of societies thereby creating the conditions that perpetuate them.

Property concerns conflicts – both conflicts between individuals and conflicts of interest. Conflicts between individuals have long been the paradigmatic property focus. According to this view, property debates circle around issues of autonomy and productive competition. But this is an impoverished view. In this Article, we shift attention to conflicts of interest. By helping people manage conflicts of interest, a well-governed property system balances interdependence with autonomy and productive cooperation with productive competition. We identify three mechanisms woven throughout property law that help manage conflicts of interest: (1) internalization of externalities; (2) democratization of management; and (3) de-escalation of transactions. We show that property law predictably selects among these mechanisms depending on the ratio of economic to social benefits that people seek from a group resource. When economic concerns predominate, property law typically uses contribution-based allocations of rights and responsibilities mediated by formal, foreground procedures, while at the social end of the spectrum we tend to see more egalitarian substantive rules operating as an informal, background safety net.

In the final chapter of the collection, the author suggests that an alternative research agenda should be developed, one that focuses on generating information with "practical relevance to conflict prevent." After discussing the weaknesses of the current orthodoxy on violent conflict and conflict prevention in sub-Saharan Africa, the author addresses the major challenges faced by conflict prevention. Finally, the author concludes by exploring why a focus on violence and agency rather than conflict and cause is necessary, and how the tenants of cultural studies and post-modern sociology can be applied.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: Introduction -- 1. Conflict: An Approach to the Study of Japan -- 2. Conflict and Its Accommodation: Omote-Ura and Uchi-Soto Relations -- PART II: Conflict in Interpersonal Relations: Individuals, Families, and Villages -- 3. Nonconfrontational Strategies for Management of Interpersonal Conflicts -- 4. Analysis of Conflict in a Television Home Drama -- 5. Spirit Possession and Village Conflict -- PART III: Conflict in Movements and Organizations: Labor, Education, and Women -- 6. Conflict and Its Resolution in Industrial Relations and Labor Law -- 7. Conflict in Institutional Environments: Politics in Education -- 8. Student Conflict -- 9 Status Conflict: The Rebellion of the Tea Pourers -- PART IV: Conflict in the Political Process: Parties, Bureaucracy, and Interest Groups -- 10. Conflict in the Diet: Toward Conflict Management in Parliamentary Politics -- 11. Policy Conflict and Its Resolution tvithin the Governmental System -- 12. Conflict over Government Authority and Markets: Japan's Rice Economy -- PART V: Conclusion -- 13. Conflict and Its Resolution in Postwar Japan -- Contributors -- Index