BMF CP71: Examining the consequences of blockage, vandalism, and harassment for the climate cause
AISDL Team
March 4, 2024
“[…] only by uniting the power of the entire village could they chase Snake away.”
—In “Virtue of Sacrifice”, The Kingfisher Story Collection [1]
1. Project description
1.1. Main objectives
The current study is conducted to examine the following research questions:
- What are the consequences of blockage, vandalism, and harassment activities for the cause of climate change mitigation?
- What kind of environmental activism leads to the escalation of violence?
- Which pathways (e.g., survival threats) do the activism lead to violence escalation?
The findings from this study are expected to provide insights into the effectiveness and appropriateness of strategies to raise public awareness and support and contribute to the societal transitions to address climate change [2-4].
1.2. Materials
The mindsponge theory will be used for conceptual development. Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF) analytics will be used for statistical analysis on a dataset of 89 blockage, vandalism, and harassment cases in 13 countries [5-8]. The Bayesvl R package, aided by the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm, will be employed for statistical analyses [7]. For more information on BMF analytics, portal users can refer to the following book [8]. For the sake of research transparency and reducing research and reproducibility costs, we have stored all data and computer code on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/10778224 (DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10778224).
1.3. Main findings
The preliminary analysis indicates that rallies and demonstrations, marches, event disruption, and art vandalism are negatively associated with the probability of violence escalation. Meanwhile, road blockage and assault are positively associated with the probability of violence escalation, and sabotage has an ambiguous effect. (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Estimated coefficients
2. Collaboration procedure
Portal users should follow these steps for registering to participate in this research project:
- Create an account on the website (preferably using an institution email).
- Provide your name, affiliation, and desired project role below this post.
- Patiently wait for the formal agreement on the project from the AISDL mentor.
If you have further inquiries, please contact us at aisdl_team@mindsponge.info
If you have been invited to join the project by an AISDL member, you are still encouraged to follow the above formal steps.
All the resources for conducting and writing the research manuscript will be distributed upon project participation.
AISDL mentor for this project is Minh-Hoang Nguyen.
AISDL members who have joined this project are Quan-Hoang Vuong and Viet-Phuong La.
The research project strictly adheres to scientific integrity standards, including authorship rights and obligations [11], without incurring an economic burden at participants’ expenses [12].
References
[1] Vuong QH. (2022). The Kingfisher Story Collection. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BG2NNHY6
[2] Vuong QH. (2021). The semiconducting principle of monetary and environmental values exchange. Economics and Business Letters, 10(3), 284-290. https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/EBL/article/view/15872
[3] Nguyen MH, Jones TE. (2022). Building eco-surplus culture among urban residents as a novel strategy to improve finance for conservation in protected areas. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 9, 426. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01441-9
[4] Vuong QH, et al. (2020). Identifying the moral–practical gaps in corporate social responsibility missions of Vietnamese firms: An event-based analysis of sustainability feasibility. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 28(1), 30-41. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/csr.2029
[5] Nguyen MH, et al. (2022). Introduction to Bayesian Mindsponge Framework analytics: An innovative method for social and psychological research. MethodsX, 9, 101808. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2215016122001881
[6] Vuong QH. (2023). Mindsponge Theory. Walter de Gruyter GmbH. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C3WHZ2B3
[7] Vuong QH, Napier NK. (2015). Acculturation and global mindsponge: An emerging market perspective. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 49, 354-367. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0147176715000826
[8] Vuong QH, Nguyen MH, La VP. (2024). A dataset of blockage, vandalism, and harassment activities for the cause of climate change mitigation. https://philpapers.org/rec/VUOADO
[9] La VP, Vuong QH. (2019). bayesvl: Visually Learning the Graphical Structure of Bayesian Networks and Performing MCMC with ‘Stan’. The Comprehensive R Archive Network. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bayesvl/index.html
[10] Vuong QH, Nguyen MH, La VP. (2022). The mindsponge and BMF analytics for innovative thinking in social sciences and humanities. Walter de Gruyter GmbH. https://www.amazon.com/dp/8367405102/
[11] Vuong QH. (2020). Reform retractions to make them more transparent. Nature, 582, 149. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01694-x
[12] Vuong QH. (2018). The (ir)rational consideration of the cost of science in transition economies. Nature Human Behaviour, 2,5. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0281-4