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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Conflict and Community -- 2 The Forms and Nature of Political Violence -- 3 The State and Violence -- 4 Democracy and Terrorism -- 5 Ethnic and Nationalist Violence and Democracy -- 6 Violence and the Installation of Democracy -- 7 Culture, Violence and Democracy -- 8 Democracy in Times of Risk and Uncertainty -- Bibliography -- Index

Understanding Political Violence offers crucial insights on processes damaging lives and polities in a variety of places across the globe: in Africa, in Latin America, in South East Asia and in the Middle East. By adopting a rich, evidence-based micro-level perspective, the authors provide critical answers to these questions: Who are the perpetrators of political violence? How do they get organized? The book pays particular attention to unconventional combatants such as women and children and details the drivers of their violent mobilization. It also makes considerable theoretical advances in understanding the diversity of forms of organized violence and analyzing its dynamics. The volume's approach is two-pronged: It first details carefully the wide array of factors pushing individuals to embrace political violence, then studies their interactions within armed groups, as leaders or rank and file.

Introduction -- Systemic violence -- Institutional violence -- Crowds and group violence -- Conspiracy and the contemplation of crime -- Armed struggle and civil war -- Random killing and martyrdom -- Chaotic murder -- Belligerence as sexual violence -- Numinous terror -- Violence and social change -- Conclusion.

Machine generated contents note: 1.taxonomy of political violence in South Asia / Ali Riaz -- 2.Towards a relational view of political violence / David Jackman -- 3.Representation of political violence in South Asian English fiction / Fahmida Zaman -- 4.Explaining political violence in contemporary Bangladesh (2001-2017) / Saimum Parvez -- 5.State violence and the everyday: the ecology of suspicion and distrust / Zobaida Nasreen -- 6.Communal violence in India: strategies for prevention / Maya Chadda -- 7.politics of Muzaffarnagar violence in 2013, Uttar Pradesh, India / Mujibur Rehman -- 8.State violence and youth resistance: perspectives from Indian-held Kashmir / Hafsa Kanjwal -- 9.Maoism and political violence of the People's War in Nepal / Subho Basu -- 10.Strategic logic of political violence in Pakistan / Farhat Haq -- 11.Island of violence: Sinhalese Buddhist majoritarianism and ethno-religious conflict in Sri Lanka / Neil DeVotta -- 12.Political violence and post-colonial state building in Sri Lanka / Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri.

Looking at contemporary issues such as drone warfare, state violence, gender and political violence, cyberterrorism, lone-wolf terrorism, and de-radicalization, this book draws on the expertise of members of the Terrorism and Political Violence Association network to provide readers with a fascinating introduction to the area