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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

"A staff report not a report of the Commission."--Cover. ; "A staff report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence."--Cover. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.

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.

The police are often key actors in conflict processes, yet there is little research on their role in the production of political violence. Previous research provides us with a limited understanding of the part the police play in preventing or mitigating the onset or escalation of conflict, in patterns of repression and resistance during conflict, and in the durability of peace after conflicts are resolved. By unpacking the role of state security actors and asking how the state assigns tasks among them—as well as the consequences of these decisions—we generate new research paths for scholars of conflict and policing. We review existing research in the field, highlighting recent findings, including those from the articles in this special issue. We conclude by arguing that the fields of policing and conflict research have much to gain from each other and by discussing future directions for policing research in conflict studies.