By Simon Terhaag
Often termed the “Middle East Conflict”, the continuing discord and lack of a viable peace plan continue to haunt both Israelis and Palestinians. Locked in a status quo that has seen little cause for optimism in years and perhaps decades, the ongoing …
Introduction
As students of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, members of the Pax et Bellum Journal team were recently discussing different conflicts that we have examined throughout our previous study – during this discussion it became apparent that while we could list quite …
It is often argued that Japan suffers from a “nuclear allergy,” meaning that the country and its citizens react to nuclear issues in a very specific way. On the one hand, we can observe recurring stigmatization of radiation-affected individuals after nuclear disasters and strong resistance …
Forecasting violent political crises such as the devastating resource wars of the 1990s or the ongoing conflict in Syria is a dream to researchers and policy-makers. What if we could indeed anticipate these crises; could we save people from the horrors of war? Can data …
The Mass Violence Awareness Initiative (MVAI) is a non-Governmental Organization which is based in Uppsala, Sweden. It seeks to increase public awareness about incidents of past, current and possible upcoming mass violence, genocide and related phenomena around the world.
There is understandably much use of …
