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In recent decades the political state has been implicated in genocide, mass violence, political oppression, and targeted deprivations. Yet, in the field of conflict analysis, the meaning of state "power over" in conflict settings is under-theorized. In this article I probe the conceptual depths of state power to show that such power is neither singular nor simple. It's neither ahistorical nor asocial. Beneath the surface of the state's wide-ranging practices of governing its political subjects is a fundamental paradox that juxtaposes the state's authority as the rightful authority over its subjects against the state's vulnerability to potentially de-stabilizing threats to such authority. Critical to the meaning of state power, this paradox is revealed in an entanglement of contrary forces of state legitimation and its de-legitimation by threatening forces. Such an entanglement is illustrated in the state's power to protect the nation from aggressors, to enact laws, and to manage its political subjects. The paradox implies that state power is fundamentally conflictual and, as a result, suited perfectly for analysis by scholar-practitioners in our field.

The article analyzes the political conflict – the clash and confrontation of different socio-political forces and political actors in their quest to realize their goals and interests, primarily related to the struggle for power, redistribution and change of their political status. It is noted that the management of political conflict is the activity of certain actors to resolve the conflict, or harmonize its course in order to rationally achieve the goals of the participants in the current political process. Investigate the specifics of mediation and reveal aspects of mediation as one of the modern solutions to political conflicts. Investigate the specifics of mediation and reveal aspects of mediation as one of the modern solutions to political conflicts. The aim of the article is to analyze the specifics of mediation and reveal aspects of mediation as one of the modern ways of resolving political conflicts. Political mediation - a form of mediation of the phenomena of political life – a solidarity component of the interaction of power structures and social forces, which helps to resolve contradictions in favour of the positive development of the state and society, interstate relations. The task of mediators is not to make an arbitral award or a verdict. Rather, it is up to the parties to the conflict to make a decision that best suits their interests. As a result of the agreement reached, everyone should win. Research has shown that considering the history of mediation as an effective technology for resolving political conflicts, the following definition can be made: Mediation is an effective method of resolving political conflicts involving a third (neutral) party that is only interested in resolved their conflict.

The majority of people in Wadas Village work as farmers who use natural resource to support their daily life. The commodities of the Wadas Village area are able to encourage their economic welfare. By the time, the welfare of the community has been disturbed by the planning of building the Bener Dam which exploits andesite stones from Wadas Village. This condition triggers conflict between the local community, the government and also the police. The purpose of this discussion is to review the development plan and the dynamics of social conflict in the plan for the construction of the Bener Dam and ansesite stones mining in Wadas Village which is viewed from the conflict theory of Karl Marx. The method of this research is a qualitative descriptive method with a literature study approach. The results of the study found that the people of Wadas Village refused andesite mining as a material for the Bener Dam because it threatens water sources and erodes agricultural land which is used as an economic source. From the perspective of Karl Marx, the conflict was seen government as the bourgeoisie and the people of Wadas Village as the proletariat. The conclusion from the results of this discussion is that the construction of the Bener Dam creates pros and cons between the community and the government, as well as the opportunity for the formation of social classes that can be studied through Karl Marx's theory of conflict.

A nonlinear dynamic model is presented that reconciles balance-of-power and preponderance-of-power theories of international conflict in terms of the interaction of economic and political constraints. It is shown that the apparent paradox and complexity of conflict trajectories arise as much from the nonlinear nature of the system as from the multiplicity of causes. Convergent, explosive, oscillating, and chaotic regimes arise from the model depending on the choice of parameters.

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This paper is concerned with methods for analysing patterns of conflict. We survey dynamic games, differential games, and simulation as alternative ways of extending the standard static economic model of conflict to study patterns of conflict dynamics, giving examples for each type of model.
It turns out that computational requirements and theoretical difficulties impose tight limits on what can be achieved using the first two approaches. In particular, we appear to be forced to model the outcome of conflict as being decided in a single final confrontation if we employ non-linear contest success functions.
A simulation study based on a new model of adaptive, boundedly rational decision making, however, is shown not to be subject to this limitation. Plausible patterns of conflict dynamics emerge, which we can link to both historical conflict and standard tenets of military theory.

Papers presented at the National Seminar on "The New Dynamics of Conflict in Nepal : Challenges and Opportunities", held at Lalitpur during 12-13 November 2008

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Southern Thailand : the dynamics of conflict -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Southern Thailand: The Dynamics of Conflict -- Muslims in Southern Thailand -- Peaceful Decades -- Return of Violence; "Traditional" Southern Problems -- Religion and the Insurgency -- Separatists, Terrorists, and Militants -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Major Incidents in Southern Thailand since December 24, 2001 -- Project Information: Internal Conflicts and State-Building Challenges in Asia.

This important new book critically examines the argument that structural asymmetries between the rich, industrialised countries of the global 'north' or 'centre' and the poor, largely primary-producing countries of the 'south' or 'periphery' could be responsible for an unequal division of the gains from international trade and investment. It explores this view by developing a model of Centre-Periphery relations using building blocks provided by Sraffa, Leontief, Pasinetti, Goodwin and others