@article{Engelbrecht_Vos_2011, title={ON THE USE OF THE SHAPLEY VALUE IN POLITICAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION}, volume={37}, url={https://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/60}, DOI={10.5787/37-1-60}, abstractNote={This article delineates generic causes to internal conflict and proposes a<br />coalition-forming methodology to allow for power sharing as one avenue of conflict<br />resolution. A suitable framework to study causes to internal conflict should, at least,<br />provide for big bad men versus people under pressure, recent versus historic events<br />and an internal versus an external emphasis that may be employed to understand the<br />rationale for internal conflict. As long as aggrieved parties are not allowed to<br />address their grievances adequately, political conflict will emerge and, if not<br />addressed timely, such conflict may lead to civil war. A conflict resolution<br />mechanism based on the Shapley value is proposed to deal with internal conflict.<br />The allocation of delegates, derived so that all parties have a say commensurate with<br />their support bases, should allow for formal consensus to take place more readily<br />than in cases where a particular party’s representation in such a forum dominates the<br />representation of the other parties. An algorithm to determine the number of votes or<br />seats allocated to each of the parties to ensure equitable power sharing is also given.<br />The causal reasons for internal conflict and the proposed methodology to deal<br />with such conflict was presented to prominent South African politicians and political<br />scientists for comment. A favourable response regarding their acceptance of the<br /&gt;methodology was elucidated.}, number={1}, journal={Scientia Militaria - South African Journal of Military Studies}, author={Engelbrecht, G.N. and Vos, A.P.}, year={2011}, month={Aug.} }