POL 3162 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Security Dilemma, Microsociology, Ingroups And Outgroups
15 Apr 2016
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A deliberate and coordinate effort to eliminate all members of a particular ethnic, religious or national group through mass murder. In terms of opportunities, genocide most likely: when ethnic divisions present in the context of an ongoing war, and, the international community must be either unable or unwilling to step in. The decay of the weberian state (uneven decline in the states" capacities) The end of the cold war further weakened many third world countries. The stronger states of the west increasingly reluctant to use military force. The eclipse of the left-right ideological axis. Lacks strong evidence that higher level of conflict lead to higher levels of violence. Even where violence is clearly rooted in pre-existing conflict, it should not be treated as a natural. Violence is not a quantitative degree of conflict but a qualitative form of conflict. The study of violence should be emancipated from the study of conflict.
