Theorizing Conflict

Conflict has always been the subject of different interpretations and explanations. Any analysis of existing and historical conflicts must make clear their assumptions, and should justify the underlying concepts which direct the questions asked, and the framework employed in the analysis. The theorising conflict group explore these assumptions across a set of different areas: 

• causes for the emergence of violent conflict; 
• subjects of violence and the consequences of violence for these subjects; 
• the forms that conflict takes, and the technologies developed to commit acts of violence; 
• the legacies of violence in post-conflict spaces.