The Logic of Violence Between War and Peace: A New Perspective on the Dynamics of Political Violence Using the Case Example Liberation Tigers of Tamil (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783848738526)

This study focuses on the escalation of collective violence in ongoing intra-state conflicts, which means that it is not an analysis of conflict onset, but rather a study of conflict duration. The results of the author's intensive field research into and case analysis of the Sri Lankan Civil War, instigated by the Tamil Tigers during the 1980s, demonstrate that both the causal mechanisms bound to the local and international legitimacy of the conflict and the political opportunities that arose directly from it can be used to explain the sudden escalation of political violence during the war. The new hypotheses generated during the study answer the following research question: How can we deal with the logic of violence between war and peace, which either leads the warring factions to a state of stable peace or to a further escalation of violence?

Author: Ibrahim Can Sezgin
ISBN-10: 384873852X
ISBN-13: 9783848738526
Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Language: English
Published: 02/24/2017
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d