Dynamics of violence
Subtitle: processes of escalation and de-escalation in violent group conflicts
By: edited by Georg Elwert, Stephan Feuchtwang, Dieter Neubert.
Contributors: Elwert, Georg.; Feuchtwang, Stephan.; Neubert, Dieter.
Series: Beihefte = -- Supplements to "Sociologus" -- Heft/No. 1; Beihefte Sociologus -- Heft 1.
Publisher: Duncker & Humblot
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9783428099573
Subjects: Violence -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Based on two conference held in Berlin and Mainz in 1995 and 1996 with the title: "Feud, war and genocide."
Notes: " ... based on two conferences held in Berlin and Mainz in 1995 and 1996 with the title 'Feud, war and genocide'."--P. [5].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-289).
Table of contents: title: I. The logic of violence : theoretical approaches: Forms of martial power : total wars, wars of pacification, and raid : some observations on the typology of violence / Trutz von Trotha; title: Societies in civil war / Peter Waldmann; title: Markets of violence / George Elwert; title: The dynamics of war  and alliance among the Yanomami / Jürg Helbling; title: II. Auto-regulation of violence and escalation: Violent conflicts in West-African Burgo on the eve of colonisation / Erdmute Alber; title: Humiliation and reconciliation in Northern Albania : the logics of feuding in symbolic and diachronic perspectives / Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers; title: Dynamics of escalating violence / Dieter Neuberg.; title: III. De-escalation and treatment of the consequences of violence: War, genocide and aid : the genocide in Rwanda / Tim Allen; title: About the role of churches in the peace process in Africa and Central America / Gerhard Grohs; title: Neither war nor peace : making sense of violence / Heike Schmidt; title: The temptations of war and the struggle for peace among the Hamar of Southern Ethiopia.