This is a 3-part podcast series produced by Félix Krawatzek and Lea Muller-Funk and created by Emma Chippendale as part of a workshop held at Nuffield College, Oxford University, on 19 and 20 June 2017 on Political Remittances and Political Transnationalism: Narratives, Political Practices and the Role of the State.
This is a 3-part podcast series produced by Félix Krawatzek and Lea Muller-Funk and created by Emma Chippendale as part of a workshop held at Nuffield College, Oxford University, on 19 and 20 June 2017 on Political Remittances and Political Transnationalism: Narratives, Political Practices and the Role of the State.
This is a 3-part podcast series produced by Félix Krawatzek and Lea Muller-Funk and created by Emma Chippendale as part of a workshop held at Nuffield College, Oxford University, on 19 and 20 June 2017 on Political Remittances and Political Transnationalism: Narratives, Political Practices and the Role of the State.
This report is the first instalment of a three-volume series commissioned by the Bosch Stiftung on the implications of automation, algorithms, and machine learning for the practice and communication of international politics.
Do emotions and ideologies matter for violent political mobilization?
Liberal societies conventionally treat religion as unique under the law, requiring both special protection (as in guarantees of free worship) and special containment (to keep religion and the state separate).
Peacekeeping is one of the principal activities and foreign policy tools implemented by the international community to create and “maintain international peace and security.” Peacekeeping operations have grown in size and scope since the late 1980s and have included traditional peacekeeping, multidimensional peacekeeping, and peace enforcement. Peacekeeping operations pursue far-reaching objectives ranging from humanitarian assistance and the repatriation of refugees, over the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of former combatants, to liberal democratic assistance policies.
Peacekeeping has been one of the main conflict management tools used by the international community to restore or safeguard peace and security. Since 1948, the United Nations has established 70 peace operations and has substantially evolved, adopting approaches to peace that extend beyond purely military concerns. Indeed, the promises of peacekeeping as effective instrument of conflict reduction may, to some extent, explain the evolution toward multidimensional missions and the unprecedented number of peacekeepers deployed in the last decade.
Frontline investigations with fighters against the Islamic State (ISIL or ISIS), combined with multiple online studies, address willingness to fight and die in intergroup conflict. The general focus is on non-utilitarian aspects of human conflict, which combatants themselves deem ‘sacred’ or ‘spiritual’, whether secular or religious. Here we investigate two key components of a theoretical framework we call ‘the devoted actor’—sacred values and identity fusion with a group—to better understand people’s willingness to make costly sacrifices.
