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Human Tendencies Towards Violence
A study that focuses on the emergence of conflict presumably aims to use whatever knowledge is gained in efforts to prevent conflict. The history of humanity is laden with accounts of people engaging in violence. It is so ingrained within society, yet we seem to not have a concrete understanding of what provokes it to the extent that recent events have shown violence can go. The study of conflict and violence in humans have been explained through various schools of thought, of which the conflict theory is the most prominent and more appropriate in the study of humans' tendencies towards violence.
Conflict theory explains that humans have the tendency to experience conflict within and in his/her society, demonstrating that to a certain degree, conflict and the emergence of violence is structural in nature. This school of thought further characterizes conflict into the following key stages: latent conflict, manifest limited conflict, and escalating violent conflict (Lund, 2009). A multitude of factors and variables that leads and results to violence have been explored in studies for many years, but these factors and variables can be broadly categorized into the following: political and institutional, socioeconomic, or resource and environment (GSDRC, 2014). In addition, relevant to today's societies, conflict has evolved and became associated with feelings...
The following objectives will be looked into as the researcher's guide in his pursuit to studying and answering the research question (presented above):
Objective 1. To identify the institutional, socioeconomic and environmental factors that contribute to the development of conflict;
Objective 2: To determine the nature of latent conflict and the factor and nature of factors that contribute to it; and Objective 3: To determine from current literature the general synthesis on the possible causes of latent conflict in people and societies.
The following hypothesis will also be tested in the study:
Hypothesis: Institutional, socioeconomic and environmental factors has a significant relationship to the…
References:
Lund, M.S. (2009). Conflict prevention: Theory in pursuit of policy and practice. In J. Bercovitch, V. Kremenyuk, and I.W. Zartman (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Resolution. London (UK): SAGE, pp. 287-308.
Pedersen, D. (2004). Political violence, ethnic conflict, and contemporary wars: Broad implications for health and social well-being. Social Science & Medicine, 55, 175-190. file: Pedersen%202002_Political%20violence.pdf
Popay, J. (2006). "Guidance on the conduct of narrative synthesis in systematic reviews." ESRC National Centre for Research Methods.
____. (2014). Understanding conflict. Chapter 1. Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC): Applied Knowledge Services. Australia: University of Birmingham. Retrieved from http://www.gsdrc.org/docs/open/CON70.pdf
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