Ethnoreligious Conflict and Populism: Emotive Political Response in the Rohingya Conflict

: International Trade and Political Conflict

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Political Parties in Conflict - Prone Societies

Audiovisual Conflict Detection in Political Debates

In this paper, the automatic detection of conflict in audiovisual recordings of political debates is addressed. In contrast to the current state of the art in social signal processing, where only the audio modality is employed for analysing the human non-verbal behavior, we propose to use additionally visual features capturing certain facial behavioral cues such as head nodding, fidgeting and f...

Understanding responses to political conflict: interactive effects of the need for closure and salient conflict schemas.

Two studies examined the relationship between the need for cognitive closure and preferences for conflict-resolution strategies in 2 different samples of elite political actors. Although research has suggested that high need for closure should be associated with competitiveness, the authors argue that this relationship should be strongest among political actors with a hostile conflict schema, o...

Agent-based Simulation of Geo-Political Conflict

The intelligence analysis task of anticipating crises and providing decision makers with reasonable (supportable, explainable) possible futures is extremely difficult. To perform this task, a team of analysts must consider the political, economic, and military aspects of national governments and non-governmental organizations. This paper describes an agent-based simulation framework, the Advanc...