Contours of Conflict in the 21st Century

READER GUIDANCEReader GuidanceThis study shows the richness and diversity of global views on the futureof conflict across four language domains. In highlighting the wide crosslanguagevariety, it extensively draws on original sources and providesmany illustrative quotes and visualizations. As a result, this report runs244 pages long. For those readers that are mainly interested in the keyfindings of this study, we have included this guidance. This will bringdown the recommended reading material to some 25 pages.Box – Reader GuidanceKey Objectives of the Project (13-15)Introduction to the Metafore Protocol (17-19)Chinese Language Domain: State of the Field (37-38)Chinese Language Domain: Main Take Aways (59-60)English Language Domain: State of the Field (61-63)English Language Domain: Main Take Aways (85-86)Russian Language Domain: State of the Field (87-89)Russian Language Domain: Main Take Aways (115-116)Arabic Language Domain (117-118)Across Language Domains: Overview (125-126)Across Language Domains: Main Take-Aways (140-141)What Do We Take Away From This? (143-148)HCSS Report 11