Explaining the Formation of Collective Strife and Conflict in Ardabil Province

Conflicts in developing societies and evolving from the traditional to the modern societies are observed because of the shifting social values and the decline of the existing norms. Ardabil province has experienced many conflicts over the past years. Accordingly, the main purpose of this research is to explain the formation of collective strife and conflict in Ardabil province.

The present study is a meta-analysis in terms of its methodology. Meta-analysis is a quantitative method in survey studies to achieve a certain effect size through the Cohen test. The statistical population of the study consisted of 19 authoritative research studies (articles, dissertations and theses) and 13 samples were selected after validity and reliability assessment. Its time span ranged from 2013 to 2017.

The findings show that the level of tendency to strife and conflict is high (34%), moderate (37%) and low (29%). Collective strife, as the main dependent variable, is influenced by social capital (effect size = 0.291), social control (effect size = 0.194), social dissatisfaction (effect size = 0.189), tribal attachment (effect size = / 169). 0) and social differences (effect size = 0.274).

In the traditional societies such as Ardabil province, the strife and conflict is one of those damages that is influenced by other social factors such as social capital, social control and social disputes that are needed to be taken into considerations by the administrative and enforcement agencies to prevent the continuation and intensification of the phenomenon of collective strife using appropriate measures such as strengthening social capital and controlling traditional attachments and dissatisfaction and social differences.