Articles, Journals & Book Chapters
Through his publications and peace-making practices, Rothbart delves deeply into the underbelly of protracted violent conflicts to reveal why and how otherwise peaceful communities resort to large-scale violence against their adversaries.
“Resilience practices and post-traumatic growth among Sudanese IDPs.” Under review.
“Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement: Termination of Africa’s Longest War.” Identity and Religion in Peace Processes: Mechanisms, Strategies, and Tactics. Routledge Press. Forthcoming.
“Extremist Aggression: A Social Psychological Explanation.” The Handbook of Social and Political Conflict Communication. Wiley Press. Forthcoming.
“Political Narcissism of Right-Wing Extremists: Understanding Aggression of the Proud Boys.” Peace and Conflict: The Journal of Peace Psychology. 2024. Co-authored.
“Witnessing War: Civilian voices in Sudan.” Peace News Network. December 6, 2023.
“The Production of the meaning of justice in the aftermath of war in Sudan.” Peace and Conflict: The Journal of Peace Psychology. 2023. 29(3). Co-authored.
“Living Through War: An Oral History of Civilians in Sudan.” Conflict Resolution Quarterly. April, 2023. Co-authored.
“The Emancipatory Praxis of Peace and Conflict Studies: The Field of Genocide Studies.” Peace and Conflict Studies Journal. Vol. 29. No. 2. 2023. Co-authored.
“The Emotional Life of Conflict Actors: The Psychology of Compassion in Peacebuilding.” The Peace Chronicle: The Magazine of the Peace and Justice Studies Association. 2022.
“The Proud Boys Raging Righteously at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021: A Hate Group in Action.” Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. 2022. Co-authored.
“Righteous Rage as Political Force.” Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. Vol. 27(4). 2021.
“Compassion for enemy militants?: A Case Study.” Conflict Resolution Quarterly. Vol. 38. Issue 4. 2021.
“Government-Sponsored Denigration of Marginalized Groups.” Journal of Applied Social Theory. 2021.
“The Paradox of Power in the Dynamics of Conflict.” Peace and Conflict Studies. 2020.
“Building Peace through Systemic Compassion.” Conflict Resolution Quarterly. Vol. 36. Issue 4: 373-386. 2019. Co-authored.
“Government Power and Positioning of Marginalized People.” The Second Cognitive Revolution: A Tribute to Rom Harré. Edited by Bo Allesoe. Springer Publishing. 2019.
“Sudan and South Sudan at the Crossroads.” Journal of Peace and Development. 2017.
“Systemic Humiliation as Daily Social Suffering.” Alleviating World Suffering: The Challenge of Negative Quality of Life. Edited by Ronald Anderson. Springer International Publishing. 2017. Co-authored.
“Power and Humiliation.” Systemic Humiliation in America – Finding Dignity within Systems of Degradation. Palgrave Macmillan. November 2017.
“Hutus Aiding Tutsis During the Rwandan Genocide: Motives, Meanings and Morals.” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal. December 2016. 10.2. Co-authored.
“Causality and Protracted Violent Conflicts: The Case of Internally Displaced Persons.” Questioning Causality: Scientific Explorations of Cause and Consequence across Social Contexts. Edited by Rom Harré and Fathali M. Moghaddam. Praeger 2016.
“Ideology and Cultural Violence in Darfur.” Conflict Trends, ACCORD. Issue 3. 2016. Co-authored.
“Darfur: The Crisis Continues.” Beyond Intractability. 2013. Co-authored.
“Sudan and South Sudan: Post-Separation Challenges.” Beyond Intractability. 2013. Co-authored.
“The Place and Plight of Civilians in Modern War.” Civilians and Modern War: Armed Conflict and the Ideology of Violence. Routledge Press. 2012. Co-authored.
“The Politics of Civilian Identity.” Civilians and Modern War: Armed Conflict and the Ideology of Violence. Routledge Press. 2012. Co-authored.
“Conclusion: the Road Ahead.” Civilians and Modern War: Armed Conflict and the Ideology of Violence. Routledge Press. 2012. Co-authored.
“Identity, Difference, and Ethnic-Based Violence.” Beyond Rationality: Contemporary Issues. Carl Jensen, ed. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2012.
“Striking Civilian Targets during the Lebanon War - A Social Psychological Analysis.” Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. July 2009. 15:3, 281-303.
“Recent Advances in Positioning Theory.” Theory & Psychology. 2008. Co-authored.
“Causation as a Core Concept in Conflict Analysis.” Handbook of Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Sean Byrne, Dennis Sandole, Jessica Senehi, Ingrid Staroste-Sandole, Eds. Routledge Press. 2008. Co-authored.
"The Enemy and the Innocent of Violent Conflict." Handbook of Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Sean Byrne, Dennis Sandole, Jessica Senehi, Ingrid Staroste-Sandole, Eds. Routledge Press. 2008. Co-authored.
“Rwandan Radio Broadcasts and Hutu/Tutsi Positioning.” Global Conflict Resolution through Positioning Theory. Fathali M. Moghaddam, Rom Harré, Naomi Lee, Eds. Springer (New York). 2008. Co-authored.
“Social Justice and Indigenous Identities.” Social Justice. Vol. 6. No. 1. 2006. 98-112.
“Moral Denigration of the Other.” Identity, Morality, and Threat: Studies in Violent Conflict. Co-edited. Lexington Books. 2006. Co-authored.
“Good Violence and the Myth of the Eternal Soldier.” Identity, Morality, and Threat: Studies in Violent Conflict. Co-edited. Lexington Books. 2006. Co-authored.
"Visualizing Instrumental Techniques of Surface Chemistry." Philosophy of Chemistry. Edited by D. Baird and E. Scerri. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Dordrecht. Springer Publishing Company. 2005. 309-324. Co-authored.
“Scientific Prototypes as Analogies of Science.” Theoria and Historia Scientiarum. Vol. 8, No. 1. 2004. 209-222.
“General Introduction.” Modeling: Gateway to the Unknown." A Work by Rom Harré. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Elsevier Science, B. V. 2004.
"The Revolution in Instrumentation." Hyle: An International Journal in the Philosophy of Chemistry. Vol. 9. 2003. 123-126.
"Laboratory Metaphors." University Scholars Occasional Papers. Volume 2. National University of Singapore. 2003.
"Justifying Instrumental Techniques of Analytical Chemistry." Chemical Explanation: Characteristics, Development, Autonomy. Edited by Joseph E. Earley, Sr. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, New York: The New York Academy of Sciences. 2003. 250-256. Co-authored.
"Designing Instruments and the Design of Nature." Scientific Experimentation and its Philosophical Significance. Edited by Hans Radder. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2003. 236-254.
"The Dual Nature of Chemical Substance." Techné: Society for Philosophy & Technology. Volume 6 Number 2. 2002.
"Philosophy and the Engineering of Instruments." Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research. Volume LXXIV: Energies, Forces and the Shaping of Life. Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2002. 117-133.
"Analogy." Encyclopedia Americana. Volume One. Grolier Educational. 2002. 1-3.
"Substance as Function in Chemical Research." Molecules and Minds. Edited by N. Bhushan and S. Rosenfeld. Oxford University Press. 2000. 75-89.
"On the Relationship between Instrument and Specimen in Chemical Research." Foundations of Chemistry: Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies of Chemistry. Vol. 3. 1999. 257-270.
“The Design of Nature through Chemical Instrumentation." Ars Mutandi: Issues in Philosophy and History of Chemistry. Edited by N. Psarros and K. Gavroglu. Leipziger Universitäts Verlag. 1999. 65-73.
“Extending Popper's Epistemology to the Laboratory." Dialectica. Vol. 52, No. 3. 1998. 247-254.
"Metaphor as an Exact Concept in the Theory of Properties." Theoria. Volume 2. 1998. 91-103. Co-authored.
"Kant's Critique of Judgment and the Scientific Investigation of Nature." Hyle: An International Journal in the Philosophy of Chemistry. Volume 3. 1997. 65-80. Co-authored.
"Spectrometers as Analogues of Nature." PSA: 1994. Volume One. East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association. 1994. 141-148.
Reprinted with minor revision as "Observing the Analogies of Nature." Continental and Postmodern Approaches to the Philosophy of Science. Edited by B. Babich, D. Bergoffen, S. Glynn. Aldershopt. England: Avebury Press. 1995. 111-120.
"The Epistemology of a Spectrometer." Philosophy of Science. Volume 61. 1994. 25-38. Co-authored. Translated into Polish.
"Discovering Natural Kinds through Inter-theoretic Prototypes." Methodology and Science. Volume 26. 1993. 171-189.
“On the Role of History in Mathematical Proof." Telesio Courses in Mathematics. Edited by L. Maieru and D. Struppa. Cozensa. Italy: Mediterranean Press. Vol. 3. 1991. 121-130.
"Analogical Information Processing within Scientific Metaphor." Analogical Reasoning: Perspectives of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, and Philosophy, Synthese Library series. Edited by D. Helman. Dordrecht, Netherlands: D. Reidel. 1988. 377-399.
"Scientific Metaphor within a Problem Solving Methodology." Abstracts of the VIII International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Edited by I. Frolov. Moscow. USSR: Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. 1987. Vol. 4, Sec. 6. 119-123.
"Metaphor, Meaning and Methodology." Growth of Knowledge: Philosophy, Science, and Dialectics. Edited by H. Heinz and J. Manninen. Cologne. West Germany: Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag. 1987. 102-108.
“Scientific Unification Through Metaphor." Essays on Creativity and Science. Edited by D. DeLuca. Honolulu, Hawaii: Hawaii Council of Teachers. 1986. 163-166.
"The Semantics of Metaphor and the Structure of Science.” Philosophy of Science. Volume 51. 1984. 595-615.
"An Analysis of Changing Trends in Philosophies of Science on Nursing Theory Development and Testing." Advances in Nursing Science 6. 1984. 1-13. Co-authored. (Reprinted in Perspectives on Nursing Theory. Edited by L. Nicholl. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 1986. 293-303.)
"Moral Contracts and the Physician-Patient Relation." Journal of Bioethics. Volume 5. 1984. 54-63.
"Reconciling Logicism with Historicism." Methodology and Science: International Journal for the Empirical Study of the Foundations of Science. Volume 17. 1984. 115-125.
"Towards a Logical Analysis of Extended Argument." Informal Logic. Volume V. 1983. 15-20.
"The Moral Dilemma of Treating Spina Bifida Newborns." Contemporary Philosophy. IX. 1983. 2-4. Co-authored.
"Demarcating Genuine Science from Pseudo-Science." Philosophy of Science and the Occult. Edited by P. Grim. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. 1982. 94-106.
"Popper Against Inductivism." Dialectica: International Review of Philosophy of Knowledge. Volume 34. 1980. 121-127.