POL 161 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Relative Deprivation, Osama Bin Laden
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Public violence may grow so pervasive or destructive that the state loses control > sovereignty is weakened or lost. Political violence: politically motivated violence outside of state control: revolutions, civil war, riots, strikes, peaceful protest movements, operates beyond state sovereignty and seeks to achieve some political objective through the use of force. Three categories institutional, ideational, and individual [overlap to a degree] Self-perpetuating organizations or patterns of activity that are valued for their own sake. Speci c qualities or combinations are essential to political violence: may be the values or norms of the institution that implicitly or explicitly encourage political police, can constrain human activity, thus provoking it. Focus on the rationale behind the violence. Ideational: having to do with ideas: may be institutionalized [concepts rooted in some intuitions such as a political organization or religion] Ideas set out a worldview, diagnose a set of problems, provide a resolution, and describe the means of getting there.
