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Record Nr.

UNINA9910265253703321

Autore

Braithwaite John

Titolo

Cascades of violence : war, crime and peacebuilding across South Asia / / John Braithwaite and Bina D'Costa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

ANU Press, 2018

Acton ACT, Australia : , : ANU Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-76046-190-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (706 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

327.170954

Soggetti

Peace-building - South Asia

Peace-building - India

Peace-building - Pakistan

South Asia Politics and government

India Politics and government

Pakistan Politics and government

Bangladesh Politics and government

Sri Lanka Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Cascades of war and crime -- Transnational cascades -- Towards a micro-macro understanding of cascades -- Cascades of domination -- Recognising cascades in India and Kashmir -- Mapping conflicts in Pakistan: state in turmoil -- Macro to micro cascades: Bangladesh -- Crime-war in Sri Lanka -- Cascades to peripheries of South Asia -- Evaluating the propositions -- Cascades of resistance to violence and domination -- Conclusion: Cascades and complexity.

Sommario/riassunto

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. This book shows, for example, how a cascade analysis leads to an understanding of how refugee camps are nodes of both



targeted attack and targeted recruitment into violence. Hence, humanitarian prevention also must target such nodes of risk. This book shows how nonviolence and nondomination can also be made to cascade, shunting cascades of violence into reverse. Complexity theory implies a conclusion that the pursuit of strategies for preventing crime and war is less important than understanding meta strategies. These are meta strategies for how to sequence and escalate many redundant prevention strategies. These themes were explored across seven South Asian societies during eight years of fieldwork.