ANDREW J. R. MACK’s scientific contributions

... Due to the prevalence of disputes, scholars have made numerous attempts to comprehend and classify them. Consequently, words like "internal conflicts" are now used (Brown 1996), 'asymmetrical warfare' (Mack, 1974(Mack, , 2008Arreguin-Toft, 2001), 'civilian-based civil wars' (Anderson, 1999); 'fire next door' (Francis, 2011), 'new wars' (Kaldor 2001), 'small wars' (Harding 1994), 'civil wars' (King 1997), 'ethnic conflicts' (Stavenhagen 1996), 'conflicts in post-colonial states' (van de Goor et al 1996), 'ethno-religious wars' (Furley, 1995), 'greed and grievance' (Berdal andMalone, 2004, Collier, 2004), 'guerrilla/insurgence warfare' (Clapham, 2000),and 'unconventional warfare' (Merari, 2007), to categorise and explain the different types of conflicts pervading the world today. Zartman (1991, p. 370) has correlated, conflict arises with interactions among people; "an unavoidable concomitant of choices and decisions and an expression of the basic fact of human interdependence." ...

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Between Security and Environmental Change: A Theoretical Exploration of the Linkage