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Violence and its causes: A stocktaking/ UNESCO

Contributor(s): UNESCO Material type: Text

TextSeries: (Challenges series)Publication details: Paris: Unesco, 2005Description: 144 p.; 24 cmISBN: 923103989XSubject(s): Political violence | Politics and warDDC classification: 303.62

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	303.62 UNE/V (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P06150

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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.

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