International Journal of Conflict Management: Volume 27 Issue 4

Cost benefit analysis of war

Kjell Hausken

Among the many perspectives to analyze war, such as rational actor, organizational process, governmental politics and ethics, the perspective that actually incorporates the costs…

Do remotely piloted aerial vehicles make terrorism more costly for terrorists?: Empirical evidence from Pakistan

Ummad Mazhar

The use of remotely piloted aerial vehicles (RPVs) as a counterterrorism strategy is intensely debated on grounds of legitimacy, political feasibility and human rights. This study…

Borders, conflict and security

Tamar Arieli

Border environments differ as foci for conflict discourse. While classic realist theories are used to account for mechanisms of securitized borders, socially oriented theories are…

International mediation in low intensity conflicts: Evaluating reputation outcomes for state mediators

Aran Martin

Success and failure in mediation are widely understood to determine whether a state will receive positive or negative reputation outcomes from undertaking a mediation role in an…

Back to the basics: how feelings of anger affect cooperation

Daphna Motro, Tamar Kugler, Terry Connolly

The authors propose that angry individuals are much more likely to consider the emotional state of their partner than are neutral individuals. They then apply a lay theory…

Social context and employment lawsuit dispute resolution

Richard A. Posthuma, Gabriela L. Flores, James B. Dworkin, Samuel Pavel

Using an institutional theory perspective (micro and macro), the authors examined employment lawsuits across case type and alternative dispute resolution methods (negotiated…

Political networking strategy and firm performance: a moderated mediation model

Yaqing Lin, Yan Li, Shuming Zhao, Steven Armstrong

By incorporating the resource-based view with the dynamic capability view, this study aims to examine the link between corporate political networking strategy and firm performance…

Servant leadership and conflict resolution: a qualitative study

Ravinder Jit, Chandra Shekhar Sharma, Mona Kawatra

The purpose of the present study was to examine the choice of conflict management strategies made by servant leaders.