News Finding: To begin, we can advocate creating a neutral space for representatives of both sides to actually meet, face to face, and listen to each other.
Paper Finding: Models of rational behaviour predict many of society's patterns, such as favoured strategies for maximizing profit or likelihood for criminal behaviour in terms of opportunity costs .
News Context: In short, facts and figures hurt rather than helped the case. To begin, we can advocate creating a neutral space for representatives of both sides to actually meet, face to face, and listen to each other. People need to be able to articulate for themselves what is sacred.
Paper Context: This includes heroism in battle, and martyrdom, where prospects for personal survival are very low but somewhat higher for those in the group who may be neither kin nor kith. Models of rational behaviour predict many of society's patterns, such as favoured strategies for maximizing profit or likelihood for criminal behaviour in terms of opportunity costs . But the prospects of crippling economic burdens and huge numbers of deaths do not necessarily sway people from their positions on whether going to war, or opting for revolution or resistance, is the right or wrong choice .