r/OnConflict

53 archived posts · Sep 2019 – Jun 2024

On Conflict

r/OnConflict

A subreddit for improving your understanding and competence in dealing with conflict—military, security professionals, policymakers, researchers, law enforcement, humanitarian workers all welcome!

Created Sep 14, 2019

113Members (last snapshot)

53Archived posts

A subreddit devoted to the serious discussion of conflict. A conflict is a clash of interest—manifested in the incompatibility, disagreement or dissonance within or between human beings. What are the causes of conflict? What sort of things can be done to understand it? Resolve it? And preempt it?

Submissions

Submissions should not be about anecdotal concerns related to conflict. Instead, they should be about the relationships between conflict and human psychology or the structural mechanisms attending conflicts. Things like politics are permitted in this subreddit, as far as they are relevant to improving our understanding towards the causes of conflict, resolving the conflict, or preempting future conflict.

Flairs

All submissions should choose one of the following flairs with each submission to allow users to better navigate the subreddit to engage in matters of interest:

Cause This post is discussing a probable cause to a specific conflict or the phenomena of conflict in general.
Resolution This post is discussing a resolution that looks to provide a tangible solution between two parties (or more) to bring an end to a conflict.
Preemption This post is discussing a matter related to the preemption of conflict.
Theory This post is discussing a theory related to conflict phenomena.
Help Needed This post is looking for advice related to the field of conflict and seeks the communities' collective knowledge to solve a problem.
Solvable Problem This post is discussing a potentially solvable problem which is related to the global field of conflict.

Community guidelines

Be kind. Failing that, bring evidence.
Do not accuse or personally challenge others, rather ask them for sources and why they have their opinions.
We're all here for the same purpose. To improve our understanding of conflict. Leave your ego elsewhere. Trolling, senseless baiting and abusive comments will be subject to removal with serious offenders banned without hesitation.
Please attempt to cite your sources regarding any statements of fact. With the immeasurable amount of information online, it's imperative that we all do our part in keeping this small part of the internet informative and beneficial.

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