--- abstract: 'This study challenges Samuel Huntington’s well-known clash of civilizations paradigm based on a philosophical reasoning of cognitive proofs. The authors propose the clash of perceptions, an alternative paradigm that better reflects the complexity of individual and collective interactions. Building on case studies and recent cognitive science and informatics research, this paradigm offers greater insight into the dynamics of international relations. In the first section, the authors explain the conceptual and methodological limits of Huntington’s paradigm before proposing in the second section a new approach geared toward individual and group phenomena aiming to model the clash of perceptions. New concepts such as percepts, misperception, misconception and perception prototypes are introduced in order to explain this complex process. These concepts help better understand the complexity of conflict among individuals, groups and nation states.' altloc: - http://www.c4ads.org/publications chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Howard given: Newton honourific: Dr. lineage: '' - family: ' Guidère' given: Mathieu honourific: Dr. lineage: '' date: 2006-03 date_type: published datestamp: 2006-04-16 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/48/38 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 4838 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/4838/1/CADS_pubs_clash_0306_final.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: unpub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Perception, international affairs, linguistics' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:23 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 17:02:53 subjects: - appl-cog-psy - ling-sem - percep-cog-psy - behav-anal succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: The Clash of Perceptions type: other userid: 6288 volume: ~