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Recent scholarship has found evidence that refugee flows may inadvertently contribute to the spread of conflict across borders. Little is known, however, about the spatial diffusion of conflict within a state's borders and what role internal displacement plays in such a dynamic. This question is of relevance because of the particular marginalization of internally displaced persons, which make them at risk of predation and militarization by armed groups. Drawing on a novel global data set on internal displacement, we evaluate this question and find evidence for a similar mechanism leading to conflict spread operating at the domestic level.

Conflict prevention was high on the agendas of both the EU & the UN in 2001, resulting in the release of major reports & ensuing high-level debates. The reports document the efforts of the EU & the UN to practically implement their new commitment to conflict prevention. Both the EU & the UN have emphasized long-term preventive efforts focused on the root causes of armed conflicts. This calls for an integrated approach & improved coordination among actors. In practice, however, this is difficult as preventive efforts in West Africa & Zimbabwe illustrate. The annex lists figures for current multilateral peace operations in 2001. For the first time since 1996 no new UN peace operation was launched. The limited size & scope of the five new multilateral missions meanwhile illustrate the increasing caution of the international states & organizations toward new operations as the costs of such commitments are realized. 1 Figure, 1 Appendix. Adapted from the source document.

1. The need for strategic conflict -- 2. Seeking strategic control : communication strategies and tactics -- 3. Maintenance and conflict : a dual process view -- 4. Seeking episode control : conflict instigation due to alcohol, moods, emotions, stress, and the environment -- 5. Interpersonal transgressions -- 6. Accounts -- 7. Seeking personal control : personality differences in managing conflict -- 8. Power and power strategies -- 9. Intercultural conflict -- 10. Seeking goal control : goal achievement and defense -- 12. Health and conflict -- 13. Ongoing serial conflict -- 14. Abuse, divorce, and effects on children -- 15. Seeking resolution through forgiveness.

"Conflict Management" published on by Oxford University Press.

Conflict in primate society / S.L. Washburn -- Resolution of social conflict in animals and man / M.R.A. Chance -- Role of conflict in human evolution -- Conflict, dominance and exploitation in human systems of social segregation : some theoretical perspectives from the study of personality in culture / George De Vos -- Intra-personal conflict and the authoritarian character / H.V. Dicks -- The authoritarian character in war -- Conflict in formal organizations / J.A.A. van Doorn -- Patterns of conflict in social groups -- Conflict in cities / Ruth Glass -- Role of cities in social unrest -- Nationalism as a source of aggression / Z. Barbu -- Internal conflict and overt aggression -- Conflict and leadership : the process of decision and the nature of authority / Harold D. Lasswell -- Objective appraisal of conflict -- Conflict management as a learning process / K.E. Boulding -- Regulation of conflict -- Models of conflict : cataclysmic and strategic / Anatol Rapoport -- Strategic thinking and state interests -- Power and communication in international society / Karl W. Deutsch -- Compliance in modern society -- The role of law in conflict resolution / B.V.A. Röling -- External and internal sources of international tension / Karol Lapter -- Conflict as a function of change / J.W. Burton -- International aspects of conflict

Conflict in primate society / S.L. Washburn -- Resolution of social conflict in animals and man / M.R.A. Chance -- Role of conflict in human evolution -- Conflict, dominance and exploitation in human systems of social segregation : some theoretical perspectives from the study of personality in culture / George De Vos -- Intra-personal conflict and the authoritarian character / H.V. Dicks -- The authoritarian character in war -- Conflict in formal organizations / J.A.A. van Doorn -- Patterns of conflict in social groups -- Conflict in cities / Ruth Glass -- Role of cities in social unrest -- Nationalism as a source of aggression / Z. Barbu -- Internal conflict and overt aggression -- Conflict and leadership : the process of decision and the nature of authority / Harold D. Lasswell -- Objective appraisal of conflict -- Conflict management as a learning process / K.E. Boulding -- Regulation of conflict -- Models of conflict : cataclysmic and strategic / Anatol Rapoport -- Strategic thinking and state interests -- Power and communication in international society / Karl W. Deutsch -- Compliance in modern society -- The role of law in conflict resolution / B.V.A. Röling -- External and internal sources of international tension / Karol Lapter -- Conflict as a function of change / J.W. Burton -- International aspects of conflict.

This volume examines conflict and conflict regulation processes. The author reviews theories of conflict and techniques of conflict management and then presents case studies of self-limiting conflict in Gandhi's India, Nazioccupied Norway, and at a nuclear weapons plant in Colorado to illustrate unconventional approaches to conflict regulation.

The interpretation of the resource-conflict link that has become most publicized—the rebel greed hypothesis—depends on just one of many plausible mechanisms that could underlie a relationship between resource dependence and violence. The author catalogues a large range of rival possible mechanisms, highlights a set of techniques that may be used to identify these mechanisms, and begins to employ these techniques to distinguish between rival accounts of the resource-conflict linkages. The author uses finer natural resource data than has been used in the past, gathering and presenting new data on oil and diamonds production and on oil stocks. The author finds evidence that (1) conflict onset is more responsive to the impacts of past natural resource production than to the potential for future production, supporting a weak states mechanism rather than a rebel greed mechanism; (2) the impact of natural resources on conflict cannot easily be attributed entirely to the weak states mechanism, and in particular, the impact of natural resources is independent of state strength; (3) the link between primary commodities and conflict is driven in part by agricultural dependence rather than by natural resources more narrowly defined, a finding consistent with a "sparse networks" mechanism; (4) natural resources are associated with shorter wars, and natural resource wars are more likely to end with military victory for one side than other wars. This is consistent with evidence that external actors have incentives to work to bring wars to a close when natural resource supplies are threatened. The author finds no evidence that resources are associated with particular difficulties in negotiating ends to conflicts, contrary to arguments that loot-seeking rebels aim to prolong wars.

In dem Interview verurteilt Staatspräsident Quett Masire zwar die Apartheidpolitik in der RSA, gibt sich in der Sanktionsfrage jedoch bedeckt: aufgrund der großen wirtschaftlichen Abhängigkeit Botsuanas von der RSA bergen Sanktionen große Gefahren. Der folgende Artikel gibt einen Überblick über die wirtschaftliche Lage und analysiert die langsam bröckelnden Fundamente der vielgerühmten politischen Stabilität Botsuanas. (DÜI-Spe)