Sacred barriers to conflict resolution

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5841, 2007, Pages 1039-1040

  Atran, Scott ^a,b,c   Axelrod, Robert ^b   Davis, Richard ^d,e  

^a INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

^d RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^e ARTIS Research and Risk Modeling   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RELIGION; SOCIAL CONFLICT;

ARMY; CONFLICT; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; VIOLENCE; WAR; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

DISSENT AND DISPUTES; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NEGOTIATING; POLITICS; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 34548269580     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1144241     Document Type: Short Survey

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20. Supported by the NSF, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Thanks to D. E. Axelrod, J. Ginges, and D. Medin for suggestions.