CRM 601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Edward Said, Misogyny, Western Culture
22 Feb 2017
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Political violence: perpetrated by the state, governments or groups and individuals for political reasons or goals. Harbors a variety of forms of violence. Between non-state actors: state institutions do not take part: hate crimes, ethnic conflicts, civil wars. State organized violence: army, police brutality, genocide, torture, famine. Between state and non-state actors: civil wars; two opposing parties take up arms or groups take up arms against a legitimate government. Some types of violence can fall between all three categories; i. e. syrian crisis. Insurgency and counter-insurgency: organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify or challenge political control of a region. Primarily a political struggle in which both sides use armed force to create space for their political, economic, and influence activities to be effective. Riots, rebellions: people believe their political systems will never respond to demands and/or is oppressive and violent; believe that violence should be fought with violence.
