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Understanding Conflict is the Road to Peace, Prosperity, Stanford Scholar Says

Tue, 01/20/2015 - 11:15pm

Understanding Conflict is the Road to Peace, Prosperity, Stanford Scholar Says by Beth Duff-Brown and Clifton B. Parker, Stanford Report

Understanding the nature of violent conflict in the world's most dangerous flashpoints may help find ways to peace and stability, according to a Stanford expert.

Once a soldier, now a scholar, Joe Felter knows better than most the intrinsic meaning of war and conflict – he served on the front lines in the U.S. Special Forces in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan and the Philippines.

Today, the senior research scholar at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation and research fellow at the Hoover Institution is on a different kind of mission: building knowledge on the subject of politically motivated conflict…

Read on.

Comments

Wolverine57

Thu, 01/22/2015 - 10:17pm

Based on the title of this article, am I to Understand that Conflict is the Road to Peace, Prosperity? Even your title can be misread. Insurgent mindset. One Islamic militant chief talked tactics with him, then revealed that his greatest tool was his mens belief that Allah was waiting for them on the other side. With Islamic terrorists, your research need go no farther than that. Since when do the Special Forces have "front lines"? You are wasting your time and someones money.