issues of order, conflict
A new interdisciplinary program that will promote innovative research into the rise and collapse of order has been established at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS).
The Program on Order, Conflict and Violence is supported by YCIAS, the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Department of Political Science.
"The Yale Center for International and Area Studies is pleased to welcome the Program on Order, Conflict and Violence and we are enthusiastic about the research that will emerge," says Gustav Ranis, the Henry R. Luce Director of YCIAS. "In today's world, it is more important than ever to study the myriad issues pertaining to order, and particularly, conflict and violence."
Stathis N. Kalyvas, the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science, has been appointed director of the program. He has studied the dynamics and consequences of violence in the context of civil war, as well as party politics and political institutions in Europe. He received the Gregory Luebbert Award for the best article in comparative politics (1998-1999) and is the author of "The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe," which won the J. David Greenstone Prize of the American Political Science Association. He is presently completing a book on "The Logic of Violence in Civil War."
Of the new Yale program, Kalyvas says: "Studies of state formation, state collapse, political and social polarization, nationalism, interstate and intrastate war and peace, ethnic strife and violence, class conflict, genocide, revolution, terrorism and various forms of criminal activity are usually undertaken in disciplinary isolation. The Program on Order, Conflict and Violence seeks to straddle existing boundaries by fostering pioneering and rigorous theoretical and empirical research on human conflict in all its dimensions; its goal is to make Yale the preeminent institution for cutting-edge research on these issues."
The Program on Order, Conflict and Violence will focus on such topics as the material and non-material origins and consequences of polarization; the causes of the breakdown, emergence and consolidation of local, national or transnational political order; the determinants of strategies, types and consequences of group conflict; and the likelihood of their violent escalation. It will offer residential research fellowships in these areas.
In addition to launching a website at www.yale.edu/ycias/ocvprogram, the program will host its inaugural conference April 30-May 1, focusing on several dimensions of human conflict that are studied in isolation. Participants will offer original contributions that address the fundamental questions of order, conflict and violence, ranging over the social sciences, history, law and philosophy. In the future, the program will sponsor various other activities, including lectures, speaker series, workshops and conferences.
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