Violence is ubiquitous, and the causes of violence are contentious.
This collection of interpretative essays, viewed comparatively through the common frame of discourse analysis, is a major and unique contribution to the analysis of political violence. The case studies are focused specifically on exra-institutional protest, terrorism, and revolutionary insurrection that have continued for a long time and contexts where possibilities for negotiation are appearing. A major strength of this volume is the extensive analytical overview based in discourse analysis provided by the editor, coupled with the commitment of all the authors to relate their particular field work to that framework. In either case the differing aspects of causation and continuation of violence are clarified. Thus the book is cohesive as an analytical piece rather than just an interesting collection of articles and as such highly to be recommended.