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Cascades of Violence : War, Crime and Peacebuilding Across South Asia.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Peacebuilding Compared SeriesPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (708 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760461904
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cascades of ViolenceDDC classification:
  • 327.170954
LOC classification:
  • JZ5584.S65 .B735 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Boxes and tables -- Figures, maps and plates -- Abbreviations -- Foreign terms -- Preface -- Part I: Cascades on a broad canvas -- 1. Introduction: Cascades of war and crime -- 2. Transnational cascades -- 3. Towards a micro-macro understanding of cascades -- 4. Cascades of domination -- Part II: South Asian cascades -- 5. Recognising cascades in India and Kashmir -- 6. Mapping conflicts in Pakistan: State in turmoil -- 7. Macro to micro cascades: Bangladesh -- 8. Crime-war in Sri Lanka -- 9. Cascades to peripheries of South Asia -- Part III: Refining understanding of cascades -- 10. Evaluating the propositions -- 11. Cascades of resistance to violence and domination -- 12. Conclusion: Cascades and complexity -- Appendix: Summary of proposition conclusions for each country case -- References.
Summary: War and crime are cascade phenomena. War cascades across space and time to more war; crime to more crime; crime cascades to war; and war to crime. As a result, war and crime become complex phenomena. That does not mean we cannot understand how to prevent crime and war simultaneously.
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Intro -- Boxes and tables -- Figures, maps and plates -- Abbreviations -- Foreign terms -- Preface -- Part I: Cascades on a broad canvas -- 1. Introduction: Cascades of war and crime -- 2. Transnational cascades -- 3. Towards a micro-macro understanding of cascades -- 4. Cascades of domination -- Part II: South Asian cascades -- 5. Recognising cascades in India and Kashmir -- 6. Mapping conflicts in Pakistan: State in turmoil -- 7. Macro to micro cascades: Bangladesh -- 8. Crime-war in Sri Lanka -- 9. Cascades to peripheries of South Asia -- Part III: Refining understanding of cascades -- 10. Evaluating the propositions -- 11. Cascades of resistance to violence and domination -- 12. Conclusion: Cascades and complexity -- Appendix: Summary of proposition conclusions for each country case -- References.

War and crime are cascade phenomena. War cascades across space and time to more war; crime to more crime; crime cascades to war; and war to crime. As a result, war and crime become complex phenomena. That does not mean we cannot understand how to prevent crime and war simultaneously.

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