A



Abnegation

Accountability 

Acculturation

Adversarial System

Aesthetic

Aesthetic Experience

Aftermaths

Affect

Affirmative Action

Agency

Agony

Aggression

Agreement

Alienation

Altruism

Ambivalence

Amnesty

Anarchy

Anger

Annihilation

Anomie

Anthropology

Anthropological Approach

Anticipatory Conflict

Appeasement

Arbitration

Archetype

Archive

Armed Conflict

Army

Ascribed Status

Assimilation

Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA) Framework

Attribution

Authoritarianism

Authoritarian State

Autonomy


Avoidance

Axiology




B



Backchannel Diplomacy

Baseline Study

Basic Needs Approach

Battle Fatigue

Behavior

Belief System

Benevolence

Berlin Principles

Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA)

Betrayal

Bias

Bias Confirmation

Bicameralism

Bilateralism

Biographical Availability

Biopolitic

Bleed-out Effect

Blue Helmets

Blueprint

Bodies

Borders

Bottleneck Effect

Bottom-Up Approach

Bottom-Up Processing

Bounded Emotionality

Bounded Rationality

Bourdieu's Theory of Power

Bracketing

Breach of the Peace

Bridge Building

Brinkmanship

Broad-based Approach

Broker


Buffer Zone

Building Back Better (BBB)

Bystander Effect






C



Capitulation

Catharsis

Ceasefire

Civil Society

Civil War

Chronicity

Class

Cognitive Dissonance

Cognitive Science

Cognition

Collateral Damage
 
Commemoration

Compensation

Comprehensive Approach

Compromise

Concept

Concurrence Victimaire

Conflict

Conflict Management

Conflict Resolution

Conflict Sensitivity

Conflict Transformation

Collective Identity

Collective Imaginary

Collective Memory


Conflict 

Conflict Transformation

Consensus

Context

Coping Mechanism

Counterinsurgency

Coup d’Etat

Crime against humanity

Criminal law


Crisis

Crisis Management

Critical Theory 


D



Death

De-escalation

Decolonization

Demobilization

Democracy

Demonstration

Deontology

Dependency Theory

Deterrence

Deviant

Dialectic

Diaspora

Dichotomy

Dignity

Diplomacy

Direct Violence

Disarmament

Discrimination

Displacement

Dispute

Dissent

Divide and Rule

Division

Domestication

Dogma

Double Bind

Dramaturgical Analysis

Dual Process Model

Duty of Care

Dyadic Encounter

Dystopia




E



Echo Chamber

Economic Sanctions

Efficacité Symbolique

Elitism

Emotions

Emotional Labor

Emotional Trauma

Empathy

Empowerment

Enemy

Engagement

Entitlement

Environmental Justice

Equal Opportunity

Escalation

Ethics

Ethnic Conflict

Ethnocentrism

Ethnography 

Exclusion

Exhumation

Exile

Existential Threat

Experience

Experiential Learning

Extrajuticial

Extreme Violence

Extreme Self-Sacrifice




F



Facilitation

Faction

Fascism

Federalism

Feminism

Feudalism

Fiduciary Responsibility

Final Solution

First World

Flawed Democracy

Folkways

Forced Migration

Foreign Aid

Forgiveness

Formal Norms

Formes de vie

Fragmentation

Framing

Free Will

Freedom

Freedom of Speech  

Front Stage / Back Stage

Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis

Functionalism

Fundamental Attribution Error









G



Game Theory

Gaslighting

Gatekeeper

Generalization

Generalized Other

Generations

Gender Roles

Genocide

Geopolitics

Gestalt Therapy

Ghetto

Governance

Grassroots

Grey Zone Conflict

Grief

Group Polarization

Grudge

Guerilla Warfare

Guilt




H



Hard Power

Harm Principle

Hate Crime

Haulocaust

Hegemony

Hegemonic Stability Theory

Hermeneutics

Heteronormativity

Hindsight Bias

History

Historical Trauma

Historiography

Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions Theory

Holistic Approach

Homeostasis

Honor

Hostage Negotiation

Hostility

Human Rights

Humanitarian Aid

Humiliation

Hybrid Warfare

Hypocrisy








I



Identity

Identity Politics

Ideology

Image

Imagination

Imaginary

Imperialism

Implicit bias

Infrahumanization

Injury

Insurgency

Institutionalization

Institutional Racism

Instrumental Aggression

Integration

Integrism

Intergenerational Trauma

Intergroup Conflict

Ingroup Bias

International Humanitarian law

Intersectionality

Interventionism


Intractable conflict 

Irredentism




J



Jadedness

J-curve Theory

Jihad

Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)

Joint Problem-Solving


Judgment

Judicial System

Junta

Jus ad bellum

Jurisdiction


Jurisprudence

Jus Cogens

Justified Behavior

Just Noticeable Difference (JND)

Justice

Just War Theory
 




K



Kinesics

Kinetic Warfare

Kinship

Kin Selection Theory

Kleroterion

Knowledge

Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development

Ku Klux Klan




L



Language

Latent Conflict

Lateral Violence

Liberal Peace Theory

Life Course Approach

Liminal

Liminal Phase

Litigation

Learning

Leader

Learned helplessness

Legitimacy

Leverage

Locus of Control

Logotherapy

Loss

Loss Aversion

Lynch Mob




M



Machiavellianism

Malthusian Trap

Marginalization

Martyr

Martyrdom

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Mass graves

Mass violence

McCarthyism

Mediation

Meme Theory

Memory

Merton's Strain Theory

Metacognition

Microaggression

Migrant Crisis

Militarism

Mindfulness

Minority Rights

Misogyny

Moral Licensing

Morality 

Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)

Myth





N



Narrative

Narrative Power Analysis

Nation-building

Nationalism

Necropolitic

Negociations

Neurofeedback

Neuroplasticity

Neutral Zone

Nihilism

No Man's Land

Nomothetic Approach

Nonaligned Movement

Nonverbal Communication

Nonviolent Resistance

Non-zero-sum Game

Neocolonialism

Norms

Nuclear Deterrence




O



Objectivity

Occupied territories

Operant Conditioning

Oppression

Ordinairy

Organized armed conflict

Othering




P



Paradigm

Paradox

Paroxysm

Participatory Action Research

Passive Aggression

Past

Peace

Peacebuilding

Peacekeeping

Personality Disorder

Phenomenon 

Phenomenology

Polarization

Politicide

Politics

Positive Reinforcement

Post-Conventional Morality

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Power Assymetry

Power Dynamics

Pride

Principle of Last Resort

Prejudice

Profanation

Psychiatry

Psychoanalysis

Psychology

Psychotherapy

Psychological Warfare 

Psychometrics

Psychosocial

Public Opinion

Punitive Justice




Q



Quantitative Research

Qualitative Research

Queer Theory




R



Racism

Radicalism

Radicalization

Rape as a weapon of war

Rational Choice Theory

Rationalization

Realpolitik

Reconciliation

Reflexivity

Refugee

Rehabilitation

Relativism

Religion

Reparations

Repression

Retributive Justice

Resentment

Resilience

Resistance

Resistance Movements

Restorative Justice

Retaliation

Revenge

Revolution

Riot

Rituals

Rites of Passage

Rising Majority

Role Theory




S



Sacrality

Sacrifice

Sacred

Sacred Values

Sanctions

Scapegoating

Schemas

Secularism

Segregation

Shell Shock

Self-Conscious emotions

Self-Determination

Self-Esteem

Shame

Social Identity Theory

Social Inferences

Social Capital

Social Control

Social Norms

Social Psychology

Social Sharing of Emotions

Sociology

Sovereignty

Stakeholder

Stereotypes

Strategy

Stress

Structuralism

Subculture

Sublimation

Surrender

Survivor Guilt

Symbols 

Symbolic Violence 

 


T



Taboo

Tactics

Tention

Territory

Terror

Terrorism

Terror Management Theory

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

Theocracy

Theory

Theory of Mind

Torture

Totalitarianism

Transitional Justice

Transmission 

Trauma

Truce

Trust

Truth

Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Typology





U



Ultimatum

Uncertainty

Unconscious Bias

Unifying theory

Unilateral Action

Unilineal Descent

Universalism

Unity

Uprising

Urban Warfare

Utopia





V



Value System 

Values

Variable

Veto

Vicarious Learning

Vicarious Trauma

Victimization

Victimhood

Victimology

Vigilantism

Village

Violence

Violence des voisins

Virtue Ethics

Visual Culture

Visuality

Visual studies

Vendetta

Vengeance

Veracity

VoluntarismZero-Sum Game




W



War

War Crime


Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)

Welfare State

Whistleblower

White-Collar Crime

Witch-hunt

Women’s Rights

Woond

Working Class




X





Xenocentrism

Xenophobia

Y




Z


Zeitgeist

Zero-Sum Game

Zionism









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