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Five lessons for future research on political violence may be drawn from the articles in this special issue. Researchers should (1) analyze political violence not as a sui generis phenomenon but as one form among others that contentious politics sometimes takes; (2) attempt to determine actors' own reasons for their choice (or rejection) of violent strategies; (3) take the "conflict situation" that encompasses the interactions of all the relevant actors (not single states, movements, or networks) as the unit of analysis for explaining collective strategic choices; (4) take the networks in which individuals interact (not single individuals) as the unit of analysis for explaining individuals' strategic choices; and (5) examine actors' decisions to eschew violence as well as their decisions to employ it in order to avoid overgeneralized explanations for the latter.

Five lessons for future research on political violence may be drawn from the articles in this special issue. Researchers should (1) analyze political violence not as a sui generis phenomenon but as one form among others that contentious politics sometimes takes; (2) attempt to determine actors' own reasons for their choice (or rejection) of violent strategies; (3) take the "conflict situation" that encompasses the interactions of all the relevant actors (not single states, movements, or networks) as the unit of analysis for explaining collective strategic choices; (4) take the networks in which individuals interact (not single individuals) as the unit of analysis for explaining individuals' strategic choices; and (5) examine actors' decisions to eschew violence as well as their decisions to employ it in order to avoid overgeneralized explanations for the latter. Adapted from the source document.

As part of a special journal forum entitled "Swiss Political Sciences Review." Collective political violence was on Tilly's long-standing concerns, and he did produce a significant and interesting body of work on terrorism after the attacks of 9/11. Terrorism is a recurrent theme in his important 2003 book, The Politics of Collective Violence, which concludes with a discussion of the topic. In this article, the author explains Tilly's conceptualize and propose to explain terrorism. Secondly, the author also show how useful and persuasive is Tilly's ideas on this topic. After summarizing Tilly's main claims about terrorism, including his call from a "relational approach" to terrorism, the author discuss some of the strengths and weaknesses of Tilly's Ideas. Kenneth Ngo