Title: Summary: Chapter 4: Understanding Contemporary Conflict

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Background Information: Conflict Resolution Theory

3. Protracted Social Conflict (PSC) Theory

4. How Recent Theories have Confirmed/discredited Protracted Social Conflict

5. An Interpretive Outline for Conflict Analysis

A. Sources of modern conflict

i. Global

ii. State

iii. Regional

iv. Social

v. Economic

vi. Political

vii. Conflict party

vii. Elite/individual

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Chapter 4 is from the below text:

Ramsbotham, O., Woodhouse, T., & Miall, H. (2011). Contemporary conflict resolution (3rd ed.). Cambridge, UK: Polity.