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Africa has witnessed a number of transitions to democracy in recent years. Coinciding with this upsurge in democratic transitions there also have been spectacular experiences of social disintegration. An alternative to discourses of the 'failed' and 'collapsed' state in Africa is an approach that takes seriously the complexity of historical processes, on which the political development of individual ...

"Offers surprising findings about the strategic rationale for killing innocent civilians in civil wars"-- "Published in association with the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St. Andrews." x, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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This volume argues that violence in the world has declined both in the long run and in the short, and suggests explanations why this has happened. The author maintains that the key to explaining the decline of violence is to understand the "inner demons" that incline us toward violence and the "better angels" that steer us away. Thanks to the spread of government, literacy, trade, and cosmopolitanism, ...

"Violence is a fact of human life. This book trace the social roots of the extraordinary processes of human destruction involved in mass violence throughout the twentieth century. Christian Gerlach shows that terms such as 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' are too narrow to explain the diverse motives and interests that cause violence to spread in varying forms and intensities from killings and expulsions ...

"In Asia the 'Age of Extremes' witnessed many forms of mass violence and genocide, related to the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire, the proxy wars of the Cold War, and the anti-colonial nation building processes that often led to new conflicts and civil wars. The present volume is considered an introductory reader that deals with different forms of mass violence and genocide in Asia, discusses ...

1. What is violence? - Is violence innate? - Violence and manliness. - Semen and blood: a history of honour. - 2. Violence: seven centuries of spectacular decline. - The reliability of the crime figures. - Seven centuries of decline. - The 'making' of young men. - 3. The youth festivals of violence (thirteenth to seventeenth centuries). - A culture of violence. - Violent festivities and brutal games. ...

facs. xi, 446 p. : ill., graphs, tabs. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-274) and index. vii, 279 pages ; 24 cm.

Kaing Guek Eav, aka Duch, was the warden of Tuol Sleng prison, notoriously known as S 21, from 1976 to 1978. He is a defendant before the international Khmer Rouge Tribunal, accused of being responsible for the death of 14,000 prisoners. In English with optional English subtitles. 1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Presentations of war and violence in museums generally oscillate between the fascination of terror and its instruments and the didactic urge to explain violence and, by analysing it, make it easier to handle and prevent. The museums concerned also have to face up to these basic issues about the social and institutional handling of war and violence. Does war really belong in museums? And if it does, ...