Peace, War, and Social Conflict Panel Session: War

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

War is a social and cultural construct with deadly consequences, and sociologists continue to invest their efforts into making sense of war. This panel provides some insights from that ongoing collective work. Papers discuss a range of topics at the heart of war: strategic thinking in the military in the case of the Chinese civil war; the concept of a wartime “necessary evil” how it can be used to decouple relations and discourses of the nation and state; the concept of “permanent security” as one increasingly crucial component of making war in the modern era; and the relationship between structures of organizational effectiveness and counter-insurgency paternalism, using the case of Columbia.

Sub Unit

• Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section / Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section Open Call Paper Session

Presider

• Nikoleta Sremac, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Individual Presentations

• Counterinsurgent Paternalism: Wartime Organizational Effectiveness in Colombia's DDR Program (2006-2016) - Sebastián Rojas Cabal, Princeton University

• Legitimizing Permanent Security - Yagil Levy, Open University of Israel

• Moral Polarization in Exile: Necessary Evil and the Decoupling of Nation and State in Wartime - Golasa sadat Haji mirzaei, Yale University

• Strategic War Making and the Chinese Civil War in Manchuria, 1946–1947 - Zikui Wei, University of Chicago

• When Does Armed Conflict Affect National Identity? Multi-Event Quasi-Experimental Evidence - Lyon Portolani, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

Session Organizer

• Jeffrey Hass, University of Richmond