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Children in political violence
Social Science & Medicine, 1989There is an urgent need to conduct research into the effects of political conflict on children growing up in South Africa. This paper discusses some international literature which may be relevant to researchers in this area. The first section briefly assesses the usefulness of the background literature on children in war and disaster situations.
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2014
Abstract In this chapter we focus on non-state actors as perpetrators of political violence. In particular we focus on organized and higher-level forms of political violence, rather than on smaller-scale and less organized forms of violence that occur during street demonstrations or in the form of riots.
BOSI, Lorenzo, Malthaner, Stefan
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Abstract In this chapter we focus on non-state actors as perpetrators of political violence. In particular we focus on organized and higher-level forms of political violence, rather than on smaller-scale and less organized forms of violence that occur during street demonstrations or in the form of riots.
BOSI, Lorenzo, Malthaner, Stefan
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THE MEDIA AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE
The Journal of Ethics, 1997Abstract In this chapter I review the meanings of “violence,” “political violence,” and “terrorism.” I then consider the responsibilities of the media, especially television, with respect to political violence, including questions such as how violence should be described and whether the media should cover terrorism.
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Political Violence in Democracy
Cités, 2012Electronic distribution by Cairn on behalf of P.U.F..
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Historical Legacies of Political Violence
, 2020Legacies of political violence are long-term changes in social behavior and attitudes, which are attributable – at least in part – to historical episodes of political conflict and contention.
Jacob Walden, Y. Zhukov
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Supporting political violence: The role of ideological passion and social network
, 2020This research examines how social networks contribute to the process of radicalization, building on work showing that obsessive (vs. harmonious) passion for a cause is linked to greater support for political violence.
J. Bélanger +6 more
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Centering Human Subjects: The Ethics of “Desk Research” on Political Violence
, 2020Quantitative data about political violence are frequently based on “desk research,” data derived from secondary sources that do not require direct contact between researchers and participants, such as people who witnessed or experienced violence.
Amelia Hoover Green, D. Cohen
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Clandestine Political Violence
2013Clandestine Political Violence compares four types of clandestine political violence: left-wing (in Italy and Germany), right-wing (in Italy), ethnonationalist (in Spain) and religious fundamentalist (in Islamist clandestine organizations). Oriented toward theory building, Della Porta develops her own definition of clandestine political violence ...
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2011
This chapter attempts to integrate two different strands of research on political violence, developing a theoretical model to analyze the common roots of repression and civil war. Under specific assumptions about the conflict technology, it shows that peace, repression (one-sided violence), and civil war (two-sided violence) become ordered states ...
Timothy Besley, Torsten Persson
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This chapter attempts to integrate two different strands of research on political violence, developing a theoretical model to analyze the common roots of repression and civil war. Under specific assumptions about the conflict technology, it shows that peace, repression (one-sided violence), and civil war (two-sided violence) become ordered states ...
Timothy Besley, Torsten Persson
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The Landscape of Political Violence
The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism, 2019The chapter surveys the extremely varied and fragmented landscape of research on political violence and proposes a way to unify the study of its various manifestations in a way that is tractable, consistent, and analytically fruitful. Drawing on research
S. Kalyvas
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