HSD: The Dynamics of Religion and Conflict: A Multidisciplinary, Empirical Approach

HSD：宗教与冲突的动态：多学科的实证方法

• 批准号: 0729516
• 负责人: Steven Neuberg
• 金额: $ 64.36万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0729516&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HSD; Dynamics; Religion; Conflict; Multidisciplinary

Whether it be Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East, starvation in the Sudan, or political cartoons in Danish newspapers, one need only turn to the evening news to recognize that religion may play a significant role in the creation and maintenance of intergroup conflict and that such conflicts often have implications that extend well beyond their immediate realm. Unfortunately, there exists little in the way of deep, data-based knowledge of the manner in which religion influences conflict processes. Such knowledge is critical for analyzing conflict situations, for being able to anticipate the emergence of conflict situations, and for creating policies to defuse potential conflicts or better manage existing conflicts. Building upon insightsfrom a wide range of disciplines (e.g., social psychology, political science, religious studies, anthropology, sociology) and existing findings about the processes that contribute to group conflict (e.g., perceived competition over scarce resources, incompatible values), this project tests hypotheses about where, how, under what circumstances, and for whom religion-influenced conflict could emerge. Employing an innovative Internet-based survey methodology, a large, international network of social and behavioral scientists will be recruited to provide data about 100 locales around the world. This method provides the ability to explore many locales, gatherquantitative data about many relevant factors, reduce the potential impact of biases in expert informant?s reports, and conduct modern statistical analyses, thereby enabling the investigators to discover whether there are fundamental, cross-cultural principles through which religion may enhance or decrease conflict. Contemporary computer simulation modeling techniques will beused to explore the implications of the findings. In sum, religion-influenced conflict has direct implications for the lives of individuals and groups across the globe, for the management of international affairs, and for the maintenance of national security. This project thus aims to generate a data-based understanding of the role that religion plays in intergroup relations, while also creating an innovative and relatively inexpensive method for performing cross-cultural research.

无论是中东的以色列人和巴勒斯坦人，苏丹的饥荒，还是丹麦报纸上的政治漫画，人们只需要看看晚间新闻就可以认识到，宗教可能在创造和维持群体间冲突方面发挥重要作用，而且这种冲突往往具有远远超出其直接范围的影响。不幸的是，对于宗教如何影响冲突进程，几乎没有深入的、基于数据的知识。这些知识对于分析冲突局势、能够预测冲突局势的出现以及制定化解潜在冲突或更好地管理现有冲突的政策至关重要。基于广泛学科的见解（例如，社会心理学、政治学、宗教研究、人类学、社会学）和关于导致群体冲突的过程的现有发现（例如，该项目检验了关于受宗教影响的冲突可能在何处、如何、在何种情况下以及对谁产生的假设。采用一种创新的基于互联网的调查方法，将招募一个由社会和行为科学家组成的大型国际网络，以提供世界各地100个地点的数据。这种方法提供了探索许多地区的能力，收集有关许多相关因素的定量数据，减少专家信息提供者的偏见的潜在影响。的报告，并进行现代统计分析，从而使调查人员能够发现是否存在宗教可以加剧或减少冲突的基本跨文化原则。当代计算机模拟建模技术将被用来探索研究结果的含义。总之，受宗教影响的冲突对地球仪上个人和群体的生活、对国际事务的管理以及对维护国家安全都有直接影响。因此，该项目旨在通过数据了解宗教在群体间关系中发挥的作用，同时也为开展跨文化研究创造一种创新和相对廉价的方法。