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Violence and its causes: A stocktaking/ UNESCO - Paris: Unesco, 2005. - 144 p.; 24 cm. - (Challenges series) .

pt. 1. New forms of violence and tentative answers to ne challenges : typology of forms of violence, causes and roots of violence. Rethinking conflict / Dominique David --
Force and violence : a fundamental distinction / Blandine Kriegel --
The new discourse of war / Yves Michaud --
pt. 2. Extreme violence, terrorism, the 'crisis' of politics. My reasons for fear and hope / General Jean Cot --
Rwanda : control of the media / Marcel Kabanda --
Analysing massacres and genocide : contribution of the social sciences / Jacques Sémelin --
pt. 3. Violence, fanaticism, sacrifice. The religious rationale of violence / Olivier Abel --
Subverting our ways of thinking / Mohommed Arkoun --
The rise of fanaticism in the European Renaissance / Dominique Colas --
September 11 and the sacrificial vision / Bernard Lempert --
pt. 4. Violence and corruption. The systemic links between violence and corruption / Marie-Christine Dupuis-danon --
Beyond ethics and utilitarianism / Jean-Michel Blanquer --
The case of Colombia / Rosa Inés Ospina Robledo and Luis Jorge Garay.

ISBN: 923103989X

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Political violence
Politics and war

Dewey Class. No.: 303.62 / UNE/V