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Psychological Peacebuilding: When the Time is Ripe for an Election

Chen, Kaiming
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Elections play a key role in post-conflict peace-building operations since the end of Cold War. Its conflictual nature and conflicting purposes may lead to another war. This thesis proposes three psychological factors that may predict peace after an election: parity of esteem, integrative complexity, and vocal rejection of violence. Drawing on the successful transition to peace in Mozambique 1994 and the failure of the 1992 Angolan election, this thesis argues that a high respect for the opponents, a complex thinking process, and a vocal rejection of violence would lead to peace after elections in post-conflict settings.
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2022-05-01
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Holmes, Marcus
Pickering, Paula
Langholtz, Harvey
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International Relations
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