| In today’s world, which is rife with civil wars, terrorist activities, and different
forms of violence, peace has become a complex concept, affected by various
social, economic, cultural, political and psychological factors. One of the states
of the society, which may pave the way for conflict or other forms of violence is
anomie. Anomie, as a societal state, in which there is a threat of violence, war or
terrorist activities, provides a rich area of study to develop deeper insights into
conflictive contexts. After developing a theoretical framework and using
formerly developed measurements and sequence results, we conduct two studies
to further investigate the relation between anomie and peace/conflict. Results
indicate that internal peace is associated with the breakdown in leadership and
social fabric (Study 1A). Therefore, dysregulated and disintegrated societies as
the result of breakdown in leadership and social fabric respectively, pave the way
for direct and indirect violence. In addition, our results illustrate that anomie has
an important role in predicting the contexts where conflict exists (Study 1B).
Findings indicate that anomie data can be useful to forecast the contexts in which
there is a potential conflict. They also highlight the importance of anomie in
peacefulness or conflictiveness of societies. |