Dynamics of Violence. Processes of Escalation and De-Escalation in Violent Group Conflicts
Die Beiträge entstammen zwei Konferenzen mit dem Titel: "Feud, war and genocide", die 1995 und 1996 in Berlin und Mainz abgehalten wurden.
Inhalt: Georg Elwert / Stephan Feuchtwang / Dieter Neubert: The Dynamics of Collective Violence - An Introduction (9-31). I. The Logic of Violence - Theoretical Approaches: Trutz von Trotha: Forms of Martial Power: Total Wars, Wars of Pacification, and Raid. Some Observations an the Typology of Violence (35-60); Peter Waldmann: Societies in Civil War (61-83); Georg Elwert: Markets of Violence (85-102); Jürg Helbling: The Dynamics of War and Alliance. Among the Yanomami (103-116). II. Auto-Regulation of Violence and Escalation: Erdmute Alber: Violent Conflicts in West-African Borgu on the Eve of Colonisation (119-132); Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers: Humiliation and Reconciliation in Northern Albania. The Logics of Feuding in Symbolic and Diachronic Perspectives (133-152); Dieter Neubert: Dynamics of Escalating Violence. The Genocide in Rwanda (153-174). III. De-Escalation and Treatment of the Consequences of Violence: Tim Allen: War, Genocide, and Aid (177-201); Gerhard Grohs: About the Role of Churches in the Peace Process in Africa and Central America (203-209); Heike Schmidt: Neither War Nor Peace: Making Sense of Violence (211-225); Ivo Strecker: The Temptations of War and the Struggle for Peace. Among the Hamar of Southern Ethiopia (227-259).