Landon E Hancock
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Landon E Hancock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Landon E |
| FAMILY NAME | Hancock |
| SIGNATURE | HANCOCK L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kent State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5054-5947 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Peacebuilding Accountability: The United Nations Peacebuilding Fund and Community-Based Monitoring and Evaluation
International peacebuilding as a discourse and practice has expanded rapidly in the nearly three decades since the publication of Boutros Boutros-Ghali's Agenda for Peace. Alongside the growth of peacebuilding efforts has come the realization that many peacebuilding projects conceived of and sponsored by the international community have failed to meet their own objectives or, more importantly, have failed to be embraced fully by those whom they w…
Confronting Peace: Local Peacebuilding in the Wake of a National Peace Agreement
The Power of Voice: Storytelling as Peacebuilding in Post-Troubles Northern Ireland
The Northern Ireland peace process has been long and tumultuous, yet 20 years after the Good Friday Agreement, peace has not become a reality for many Northern Irish citizens. For those who have been excluded from the state and the institution-led peace process, grassroots methods of peacebuilding are needed to create an everyday peace that is owned by and includes all Northern Irish citizens. A narrative approach to peacebuilding is one that add…
From Islamic to National Identity: Comparative Study of Iran’s Islamic Revolution and Green Movement
"Expressions of American White Ethnonationalism in Support for "Blue Lives Matter
This paper poses three related questions. What is white ethno-nationalism as it exists today within the United States, how is this sentiment expressed by particular organizations, and how is it expressed by ordinary people who belong to these organizations? We begin what ethno-nationalism signifies and its relation to other forms of nationalism. We then check how certain indicators are present among supporters of an organization, Blue Lives Matte…
Deliberative peacebuilding: Agency and development in post-conflict practice
This article builds and tests a model of deliberative peacebuilding by examining the work of the Suffolk-Lenadoon Interface Group (SLIG) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This model combines scholarship on democratic governance, accountability and procedural justice to address problems associated with the failure to encourage local ownership of peacebuilding processes while assuring accountability to local communities and funders. Application of the …
Narratives of Commemoration: Identity, Memory, and Conflict in Northern Ireland 1916–2016
Identity differences have long driven the Northern Irish conflict. An important aspect of identity formation for Northern Ireland are the events of 1916 and the narratives that surround the yearly commemorations of the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme. For Republicans, the Easter Rising led to the creation of the first IRA and created a symbolic link to the Provisional IRA that was active during the Troubles. For Loyalists, the Battle of…
Selling the Iran Nuclear Agreement: Prospect Theory and the Campaign to Frame the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
This paper examines the Obama administration's arguments for ratifying the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to limit Iran's nuclear capabilities and whether these claims encouraged U.S. senators to approve the agreement. The analysis relies on Kahneman and Tversky's (1979) prospect theory in which more risk is taken to avoid certain loss and improve conditions when options are framed in terms of losses rather than gains. We argue that t…
Local Peacebuilding and Legitimacy: Interactions between National and Local Levels
Resisting war: How communities protect themselves
In Resisting War, Oliver Kaplan flips the traditional analysis of peacemaking on its head by examining how local communities actively engage in reducing violence during times of civil conflict. His
Capturing the Flag: The Struggle for National Identity in Nonviolent Revolutions
One goal of nonviolent resistance movements is to legitimize themselves in opposition to governments by undermining the latter’s leadership. We argue nonviolent groups that can ‘own’ the national identity are more likely to succeed, as they can assert the legitimacy of their vision for the state, and persuade other sectors of society to support their cause. Our argument is supported by the Arab Spring uprisings, where those resistance movements t…
Narratives of Identity in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
Agency & peacebuilding: The promise of local zones of peace
International peacebuilding has expanded rapidly in the two decades since the Agenda for Peace was published. Alongside this growth of peacebuilding has come the realisation that many peacebuilding projects conceived of and sponsored by the international community have failed to meet their own objectives or, more importantly, failed to have been embraced fully by those they were supposed to help: the individuals and communities attempting to rebu…
Into the Iris: A model for analyzing identity dynamics in conflict
I propose a lens model for understanding how core identities (ethnic, sectarian, racial or national) are affected by past interactions and narratives increasing the chances of the outbreak of violent conflict. The model can be used to show how core identities are polarized during conflict escalation and how they might de-polarize during periods of de-escalation and conflict resolution, leading to potential transformation of core identities in pos…
We Shall Not Overcome: Divided Identity and the Failure of Nicra 1968
The role of national identity is such that any group that can authoritatively claim to ‘own’ the national identity can assert the legitimacy of their vision for the state; persuading other sectors of society to support their cause. The Northern Irish Civil Rights Association was unable to bridge the divide between themselves and Northern Irish security forces or their Protestant neighbors. The role that divided identity has played in Northern Ire…
Narratives of Identity in the Northern Irish Troubles
This study examines the manners in which individuals and organizations used historical narratives to justify images of themselves and of the other, contributing both to the outbreak of the Troubles and the difficulty in resolving the conflict. The role of cultural identity formation through symbolic interpretation creates a backdrop that colors struggles over access to political and economic resources and assists in either fomenting conflict or f…
Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
Who Is to Blame: The Relationship Between Ingroup Identification and Relative Deprivation Is Moderated by Ingroup Attributions
Contradictory evidence can be found in the literature about whether ingroup identification and perceived relative deprivation are positively or negatively related. Indeed, theoretical arguments can be made for both effects. It was proposed that the contradictory findings can be explained by considering a hitherto unstudied moderator: the extent to which deprivation is attributed to the ingroup. It was hypothesized that identification would only h…
Transitional Justice and the Consultative Group: Facing the Past or Forcing the Future
In January 2009 the Consultative Group on the Past released its report of recommendations for Northern Ireland to address its legacy of conflict. The two main recommendations were the Legacy Commission, designed to investigate and uncover information on some of the most high-profile incidents of the Troubles, and the recommendation that families of those who lost their lives to sectarian violence be awarded a recognition payment of £12,000. The p…
Culture and Procedural Justice in Transitioning Societies
In any transitional justice mechanism there are tradeoffs between the search for retributive justice and the practical limitations on what can be accomplished. To date, this tension has been discussed in reference to internationally established norms of justice, which the authors argue are limited in the extent to which they can explain why certain mechanisms—such as the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission or Rwanda’s gacaca courts—…
Prospect Theory and the Failure to Sell the Oslo Accords
We examine how supporters and opponents of the 1993 Oslo Accords attempted to persuade their constituents to either support or oppose the agreement. It is our argument that a “sales” message that is based on tenets of prospect theory—framing the preferred choice as less risky than the alternative—will garner more initial support for an agreement and, more importantly, will insulate a peace process to some extent from failures in implementation. F…
There is No Alternative: Prospect Theory, the Yes Campaign and Selling the Good Friday Agreement
This article examines how the non‐party ‘Yes Campaign’ orchestrated the successful passage of the 1998 referendum for the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. It argues that the Campaign’s use of strategies based upon the tenets of prospect theory – focusing on the risks of failure rather than the benefits of success – had numerous impacts throughout the six‐week campaign, ultimately resulting in the referendum’s passage with enough unionis…
Mainstreaming peace and conflict studies: Designing introductory courses to fit liberal arts education requirements
Peace and conflict studies courses are seldom seen by faculty curriculum committees and university administrators as deserving to be part of their institution’s liberal arts education requirements. We show that this unfortunate tendency is rooted in a lack of understanding of not only the compatibility between the two but of their quite complementary connections. These connections include the liberal arts’ emphases on the following: producing lib…
The Northern Irish Peace Process: From Top to Bottom
Journal Article The Northern Irish Peace Process: From Top to Bottom Get access Landon E. Hancock Landon E. Hancock Kent State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2008, Pages 203–238, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2008.00771.x Published: 13 May 2008
Zones of Peace
There is No Alternative: Prospect Theory, the Yes Campaign and Selling the Good Friday Agreement
This article examines how the non‐party ‘Yes Campaign’ orchestrated the successful passage of the 1998 referendum for the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. It argues that the Campaign’s use of strategies based upon the tenets of prospect theory – focusing on the risks of failure rather than the benefits of success – had numerous impacts throughout the six‐week campaign, ultimately resulting in the referendum’s passage with enough unionis…
The Northern Irish Peace Process: From Top to Bottom
Journal Article The Northern Irish Peace Process: From Top to Bottom Get access Landon E. Hancock Landon E. Hancock Kent State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2008, Pages 203–238, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2008.00771.x Published: 13 May 2008
Agency & peacebuilding: The promise of local zones of peace
International peacebuilding has expanded rapidly in the two decades since the Agenda for Peace was published. Alongside this growth of peacebuilding has come the realisation that many peacebuilding projects conceived of and sponsored by the international community have failed to meet their own objectives or, more importantly, failed to have been embraced fully by those they were supposed to help: the individuals and communities attempting to rebu…
"Expressions of American White Ethnonationalism in Support for "Blue Lives Matter
This paper poses three related questions. What is white ethno-nationalism as it exists today within the United States, how is this sentiment expressed by particular organizations, and how is it expressed by ordinary people who belong to these organizations? We begin what ethno-nationalism signifies and its relation to other forms of nationalism. We then check how certain indicators are present among supporters of an organization, Blue Lives Matte…
Narratives of Identity in the Northern Irish Troubles
This study examines the manners in which individuals and organizations used historical narratives to justify images of themselves and of the other, contributing both to the outbreak of the Troubles and the difficulty in resolving the conflict. The role of cultural identity formation through symbolic interpretation creates a backdrop that colors struggles over access to political and economic resources and assists in either fomenting conflict or f…
Prospect Theory and the Failure to Sell the Oslo Accords
We examine how supporters and opponents of the 1993 Oslo Accords attempted to persuade their constituents to either support or oppose the agreement. It is our argument that a “sales” message that is based on tenets of prospect theory—framing the preferred choice as less risky than the alternative—will garner more initial support for an agreement and, more importantly, will insulate a peace process to some extent from failures in implementation. F…
To Act or Wait: A Two-Stage View of Ripeness
This paper examines different conceptions of ripeness to evaluate their usefulness to war termination theory and practice. After examining the objective and subjective elements of ripeness, it suggests that the first definitions can be linked by using bureaucratic decisionmaking models and “two-table” negotiating models. This article concludes that ripeness can be enhanced through a systematic combination of its objective and subjective elements …
Selling the Iran Nuclear Agreement: Prospect Theory and the Campaign to Frame the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
This paper examines the Obama administration's arguments for ratifying the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to limit Iran's nuclear capabilities and whether these claims encouraged U.S. senators to approve the agreement. The analysis relies on Kahneman and Tversky's (1979) prospect theory in which more risk is taken to avoid certain loss and improve conditions when options are framed in terms of losses rather than gains. We argue that t…
Who Is to Blame: The Relationship Between Ingroup Identification and Relative Deprivation Is Moderated by Ingroup Attributions
Contradictory evidence can be found in the literature about whether ingroup identification and perceived relative deprivation are positively or negatively related. Indeed, theoretical arguments can be made for both effects. It was proposed that the contradictory findings can be explained by considering a hitherto unstudied moderator: the extent to which deprivation is attributed to the ingroup. It was hypothesized that identification would only h…
Capturing the Flag: The Struggle for National Identity in Nonviolent Revolutions
One goal of nonviolent resistance movements is to legitimize themselves in opposition to governments by undermining the latter’s leadership. We argue nonviolent groups that can ‘own’ the national identity are more likely to succeed, as they can assert the legitimacy of their vision for the state, and persuade other sectors of society to support their cause. Our argument is supported by the Arab Spring uprisings, where those resistance movements t…
Into the Iris: A model for analyzing identity dynamics in conflict
I propose a lens model for understanding how core identities (ethnic, sectarian, racial or national) are affected by past interactions and narratives increasing the chances of the outbreak of violent conflict. The model can be used to show how core identities are polarized during conflict escalation and how they might de-polarize during periods of de-escalation and conflict resolution, leading to potential transformation of core identities in pos…
We Shall Not Overcome: Divided Identity and the Failure of Nicra 1968
The role of national identity is such that any group that can authoritatively claim to ‘own’ the national identity can assert the legitimacy of their vision for the state; persuading other sectors of society to support their cause. The Northern Irish Civil Rights Association was unable to bridge the divide between themselves and Northern Irish security forces or their Protestant neighbors. The role that divided identity has played in Northern Ire…
Transitional Justice and the Consultative Group: Facing the Past or Forcing the Future
In January 2009 the Consultative Group on the Past released its report of recommendations for Northern Ireland to address its legacy of conflict. The two main recommendations were the Legacy Commission, designed to investigate and uncover information on some of the most high-profile incidents of the Troubles, and the recommendation that families of those who lost their lives to sectarian violence be awarded a recognition payment of £12,000. The p…
The Indo‐Sri Lankan accord: An analysis of conflict termination
This article examines the attempts made to negotiate a peaceful settlement to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict, focusing on the role of India as both the instigator and guarantor of the Indo‐Sri Lankan Accord of 1987. The failure of the Accord was the result of many factors, including India's role as instigator in forcing the agreement forward, and as guarantor by deploying Indian troops as peacekeepers. Finally, the article discusses both prior and s…
To Act or Wait: A Two-Stage View of Ripeness
This paper examines different conceptions of ripeness to evaluate their usefulness to war termination theory and practice. After examining the objective and subjective elements of ripeness, it suggests that the first definitions can be linked by using bureaucratic decisionmaking models and “two-table” negotiating models. This article concludes that ripeness can be enhanced through a systematic combination of its objective and subjective elements …
Reconciliation and justice as prerequisites for peace-building
There are relatively few works devoted solely to the ideas of reconciliation and justice in and of themselves. Instead, most of the work on reconciliation concentrates on its relation to Christian theology and morality whereas most of the work on justice in international conflict concentrates on the restoration of rule of law in postconflict societies. The concept of reconciliation as a goal for postconflict societies and its implementation along…
Pushing for peace and stability: Some observations on Colin Irwin's polls
Zones of Peace
The Northern Irish Peace Process: From Top to Bottom
Journal Article The Northern Irish Peace Process: From Top to Bottom Get access Landon E. Hancock Landon E. Hancock Kent State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2008, Pages 203–238, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2486.2008.00771.x Published: 13 May 2008
Mainstreaming peace and conflict studies: Designing introductory courses to fit liberal arts education requirements
Peace and conflict studies courses are seldom seen by faculty curriculum committees and university administrators as deserving to be part of their institution’s liberal arts education requirements. We show that this unfortunate tendency is rooted in a lack of understanding of not only the compatibility between the two but of their quite complementary connections. These connections include the liberal arts’ emphases on the following: producing lib…
Transitional Justice and the Consultative Group: Facing the Past or Forcing the Future
In January 2009 the Consultative Group on the Past released its report of recommendations for Northern Ireland to address its legacy of conflict. The two main recommendations were the Legacy Commission, designed to investigate and uncover information on some of the most high-profile incidents of the Troubles, and the recommendation that families of those who lost their lives to sectarian violence be awarded a recognition payment of £12,000. The p…
Culture and Procedural Justice in Transitioning Societies
In any transitional justice mechanism there are tradeoffs between the search for retributive justice and the practical limitations on what can be accomplished. To date, this tension has been discussed in reference to internationally established norms of justice, which the authors argue are limited in the extent to which they can explain why certain mechanisms—such as the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission or Rwanda’s gacaca courts—…
Prospect Theory and the Failure to Sell the Oslo Accords
We examine how supporters and opponents of the 1993 Oslo Accords attempted to persuade their constituents to either support or oppose the agreement. It is our argument that a “sales” message that is based on tenets of prospect theory—framing the preferred choice as less risky than the alternative—will garner more initial support for an agreement and, more importantly, will insulate a peace process to some extent from failures in implementation. F…
There is No Alternative: Prospect Theory, the Yes Campaign and Selling the Good Friday Agreement
This article examines how the non‐party ‘Yes Campaign’ orchestrated the successful passage of the 1998 referendum for the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. It argues that the Campaign’s use of strategies based upon the tenets of prospect theory – focusing on the risks of failure rather than the benefits of success – had numerous impacts throughout the six‐week campaign, ultimately resulting in the referendum’s passage with enough unionis…
Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland
Who Is to Blame: The Relationship Between Ingroup Identification and Relative Deprivation Is Moderated by Ingroup Attributions
Contradictory evidence can be found in the literature about whether ingroup identification and perceived relative deprivation are positively or negatively related. Indeed, theoretical arguments can be made for both effects. It was proposed that the contradictory findings can be explained by considering a hitherto unstudied moderator: the extent to which deprivation is attributed to the ingroup. It was hypothesized that identification would only h…
We Shall Not Overcome: Divided Identity and the Failure of Nicra 1968
The role of national identity is such that any group that can authoritatively claim to ‘own’ the national identity can assert the legitimacy of their vision for the state; persuading other sectors of society to support their cause. The Northern Irish Civil Rights Association was unable to bridge the divide between themselves and Northern Irish security forces or their Protestant neighbors. The role that divided identity has played in Northern Ire…
Narratives of Identity in the Northern Irish Troubles
This study examines the manners in which individuals and organizations used historical narratives to justify images of themselves and of the other, contributing both to the outbreak of the Troubles and the difficulty in resolving the conflict. The role of cultural identity formation through symbolic interpretation creates a backdrop that colors struggles over access to political and economic resources and assists in either fomenting conflict or f…
Narratives of Identity in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
Agency & peacebuilding: The promise of local zones of peace
International peacebuilding has expanded rapidly in the two decades since the Agenda for Peace was published. Alongside this growth of peacebuilding has come the realisation that many peacebuilding projects conceived of and sponsored by the international community have failed to meet their own objectives or, more importantly, failed to have been embraced fully by those they were supposed to help: the individuals and communities attempting to rebu…
Into the Iris: A model for analyzing identity dynamics in conflict
I propose a lens model for understanding how core identities (ethnic, sectarian, racial or national) are affected by past interactions and narratives increasing the chances of the outbreak of violent conflict. The model can be used to show how core identities are polarized during conflict escalation and how they might de-polarize during periods of de-escalation and conflict resolution, leading to potential transformation of core identities in pos…
Local Peacebuilding and Legitimacy: Interactions between National and Local Levels
Resisting war: How communities protect themselves
In Resisting War, Oliver Kaplan flips the traditional analysis of peacemaking on its head by examining how local communities actively engage in reducing violence during times of civil conflict. His
Capturing the Flag: The Struggle for National Identity in Nonviolent Revolutions
One goal of nonviolent resistance movements is to legitimize themselves in opposition to governments by undermining the latter’s leadership. We argue nonviolent groups that can ‘own’ the national identity are more likely to succeed, as they can assert the legitimacy of their vision for the state, and persuade other sectors of society to support their cause. Our argument is supported by the Arab Spring uprisings, where those resistance movements t…
Deliberative peacebuilding: Agency and development in post-conflict practice
This article builds and tests a model of deliberative peacebuilding by examining the work of the Suffolk-Lenadoon Interface Group (SLIG) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This model combines scholarship on democratic governance, accountability and procedural justice to address problems associated with the failure to encourage local ownership of peacebuilding processes while assuring accountability to local communities and funders. Application of the …
Narratives of Commemoration: Identity, Memory, and Conflict in Northern Ireland 1916–2016
Identity differences have long driven the Northern Irish conflict. An important aspect of identity formation for Northern Ireland are the events of 1916 and the narratives that surround the yearly commemorations of the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme. For Republicans, the Easter Rising led to the creation of the first IRA and created a symbolic link to the Provisional IRA that was active during the Troubles. For Loyalists, the Battle of…
Selling the Iran Nuclear Agreement: Prospect Theory and the Campaign to Frame the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
This paper examines the Obama administration's arguments for ratifying the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to limit Iran's nuclear capabilities and whether these claims encouraged U.S. senators to approve the agreement. The analysis relies on Kahneman and Tversky's (1979) prospect theory in which more risk is taken to avoid certain loss and improve conditions when options are framed in terms of losses rather than gains. We argue that t…
"Expressions of American White Ethnonationalism in Support for "Blue Lives Matter
This paper poses three related questions. What is white ethno-nationalism as it exists today within the United States, how is this sentiment expressed by particular organizations, and how is it expressed by ordinary people who belong to these organizations? We begin what ethno-nationalism signifies and its relation to other forms of nationalism. We then check how certain indicators are present among supporters of an organization, Blue Lives Matte…
Political science (28 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Law (20 works) · Law (20 works) · Politics (13 works) · Irish and British Studies (9 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)