This revised and updated second edition introduces students of violent conflict to a variety of prominent theoretical approaches, and examines the ontological stances and epistemological traditions underlying these approaches.

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Theories of Violent Conflict" takes the centrality of the group as an actor in contemporary conflict as a point of departure, leaving us with three main questions:

What makes a group?

Why and how does a group resort to violence?

Why and how do or don t they stop?

The book examines and compares the ways by which these questions are addressed...