NLP and War

Hi all

I am planning a PhD which will examine the utility of enriching conflict or post-conflict NGO interventions with a psychological perspective - currently in my opinion underused. I'm particularly drawn to NLP models because of their apparent elegance.

I was planning to analyse the reasons people go to war using Dilt's nuerological levels. I had a few hypotheses - for example that people with reasons at the 'deeper' end of the spectrum would take longer to reconcile, and that interventions aimed at a more 'shallow' level than necessary would be undermined by 'deeper' levels, for example no point reallocating taxes if there is endemic racism underlying it.

However having read convincing criticisms (here: http://www.cnlpa.de/presse/loglev.html) that his levels are neither logical, nuerological, nor 'levels' but disparate phenomena, I am searching for a different more academically cohesive framework for this research, (I still love the Dilt's levels spacial anchors exercise).

Food for thought - some of the fundamental problems in war are entrenched interpersonal conflict, unresolved trauma, displacement or transference (particularly of power relations), a negative sum mentality, and hysterical stereotyping. These are problems therapists see in their offices daily, so I thought this forum would be a good place for some creative grist! If you have a moment, please brainstorm - anything no matter how seemingly irrelevant will be gratefully received.

Thanks in advance for any time and thoughts
Chris