There appears to be a rift between the theoretical and normative understandings of what
reconciliation means and offers, and what people expect to happen in postconflict scenarios …

This study advances Thoemmes and Conway's seminal work on integrative complexity (IC)
of US presidents by examining the relationship between IC and charisma in the State of the …

Kenya's 2007 presidential election resulted in a shocking eruption of ethnopolitical violence,
leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. Research indicates that …

It is well-documented that leaders' conceptual complexity can affect their decision-making,
but what about its broader effects on political violence? While Hermann & Sakiev (2011) and …

This dissertation examines the emergence, survival, performance, and national impact of
rebel parties following negotiated settlements. Building on a growing literature examining …

States recovering from violent ethnic conflict face many challenges in trying to rebuild.
Primary among these challenges is how to best provide for the security of the people. In …

This paper studies the effects of long-term climate change on the dynamics of violent conflict
in the Kenyan crisis of 2007-2008. Climate change has been found to worsen livelihood …

This work centers on the tenet that organizational rationality is bounded: decision makers
search, satisfice, and think in the way that is typical (in its integrity) only of humans. The …

Integrative complexity (IC) describes a person's ability to differentiate and integrate aspects
within an argument. The more complexity a person employs in processing information, the …