Department of Psychology Brooklyn College Brooklyn NY 11210 USA.
Disasters. 1991 Dec;15(4):318-30. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.1991.tb00471.x.
In the first part of this article I argue that war should be considered as a disaster. A brief historical review of the relationship of the field of disaster studies to military concerns is presented in an effort to demonstrate that, in fact, war has been a familiar subject in the field. I then consider definitions of disaster and conclude that war is easily accommodated by them. In the main section of the article I attempt to uncover distinctive characteristics of war by submitting war to analysis within well known sociological frameworks for disasters. Finally, some methodological considerations for the study of war disasters are presented.
在本文的第一部分，我认为战争应该被视为一种灾难。通过简要回顾灾难研究领域与军事问题的关系史，本文试图证明，事实上，战争一直是该领域的一个常见主题。然后，我考虑了灾难的定义，并得出结论，战争很容易被这些定义所包含。在本文的主要部分，我试图通过将战争置于著名的社会学灾难框架内进行分析，揭示战争的独特特征。最后，本文提出了一些关于战争灾难研究的方法学考虑。
