Dennis Austin, who has studied political strife in India and Sri Lanka, has concluded that in such societies "democracy is itself a spur to violence" adding "depth to the sense of division".
But her features are rivetingly human: pitiless, potent studies of domestic strife, and of the fight for happiness – and domination – in sexual relationships.
Gilles Legrand's family tragedy "You Will Be My Son" is a harrowing study of father-son strife.
Now, a new study suggests that civil strife is twice as likely to break out in many nations worldwide during El Niño years.
An interest in computer science is what drew Alaina Strife to Cornell for the chance to study a field she couldn't get enough of at her high school in Horseheads, New York.
Stopping Pulp Fiction from being made would have saved me a lot of personal strife – especially all the strife I encountered studying film at university during its relative afterglow, where people would pad out their hokey three-minute plots with swaths and swaths of tedious babble about continental hamburgers and the imagined subtexts hidden within Achy Breaky Heart.
Ramping up retaliation like this is a good way of increasing the chances of strife.Sire, sire, the peasants are revoltingAt least one previous study, published in 2009, has claimed a relation between unusually hot years and the risk of civil strife.
Despite 14 years of US involvement at an estimated cost of $33,000 for every man, women and child in Afghanistan (or $14m per hour since 9/11, according to one study), Afghanistan remains mired in poverty, corruption and political strife.
Those who lay down such rules have no experience of speaking in the actual courts, the result being that text-books composed in the calm leisure of the study are sadly upset by the necessities of forensic strife.
Having left Scotland, which was torn by religious and political strife, Gordon went to Danzig (now Gdańsk) in Poland and studied at the Jesuit College at Braniewo (Braunsberg) for two years (1651 53).
