1.Introduction
2.Rethinking violence Vittorio Bufacchi
3.Machiavelli and the Gracchi: prudence, violence and redistribution John P. McCormick
4.Violence for equality: lessons from Machiavelli John Baker
5.Asymmetric war, symmetrical intentions: killing civilians in modern armed conflict Michael L. Gross
6.Beyond definition: violence in a global perspective Keith Krause
7.Economic sanctions and global governance: the case of Iraq Joy Gordon
8.Violence: a public health perspective Ivan Perry
9.Violence, integrity and education Jamil Salmi
10.The so-called mindlessness of violence: violence as a pathological variant of aggression Richard Mizen
Biography
Vittorio Bufacchi teaches in the Department of Philosophy at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Violence and Social Justice (2007) and editor of Violence: An Anthology (2009).
