1st Edition

Rethinking Violence

Edited By Vittorio Bufacchi Copyright 2011
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

Violence is a prevalent and persistent theme in all aspects of human affairs. A comprehensive understanding of violence therefore requires exposure to the research coming out from all the disciplines in the social sciences: their different methodologies, findings and insights. This book promotes the merits of an interdisciplinary agenda. By bringing together scholars of violence working in... Read more

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).