Warriors and Peacemakers : : How Third Parties Shape Violence /

Warriors and Peacemakers : : How Third Parties Shape Violence / / ed. by Mark Cooney.

Why do some conflicts escalate into violence while others dissipate harmlessly? Under what circumstances will people kill, and why? While homicide has been viewed largely in the pathological terms of "crime" and "deviance," violence, Mark Cooney contends, is a naturally-occurring...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Cooney, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]
©1998
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • Violence as Morality
  • Third Parties
  • Black's Theoretical Paradigm
  • Four Foci
  • 2. The U-Curve of Violence i
  • Status Patterns in Criminal Homicide
  • Elite Violence
  • Third-Party Social Status
  • 3. The U-Curve of Violence 2
  • Violence in Stateless Societies
  • Informal Settlement
  • 4. Configurations of War and Peace
  • Black's Theory of Partisanship
  • Feuding without End: Close and Distant Group Ties
  • Homicide without Feuding: Close and Distant Individual Ties
  • The Dilemma of Violence: Cross-Cutting Ties
  • Peaceful Indifference: Distant Individual Ties
  • 5. Foundations of Honor
  • Classical Honor
  • Modern Honor
  • Tie Stability
  • Statelessness
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Researching Violence
  • Reducing Violence
  • Explaining Violence
  • Appendix A. Moralistic Homicide
  • Appendix B. The Virginia Study
  • Appendix C. The Cross-Cultural Study
  • Notes
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index
  • About the Author

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