03937nam 2200769 a 450 991078148360332120171026195700.01-283-15982-197866131598230-472-02638-010.3998/mpub.1913185(CKB)2550000000040241(OCoLC)744333852(CaPaEBR)ebrary10482192(SSID)ssj0000526579(PQKBManifestationID)11357677(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000526579(PQKBWorkID)10520730(PQKB)10872803(MiAaPQ)EBC3415000(OCoLC)808419484(MdBmJHUP)muse9866(MiU)10.3998/mpub.1913185(Au-PeEL)EBL3415000(CaPaEBR)ebr10482192(CaONFJC)MIL315982(OCoLC)923504197(EXLCZ)99255000000004024120101123d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWhy they die civilian devastation in violent conflict /Daniel Rothbart and Karina V. KorostelinaAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,c2011.1 online resource (225 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: MonographIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.pt. 1. Disempowering civilians: Who dies in armed conflicts? ; Distinguishing the enemy from the innocent in war ; Deportation from Crimea ; Genocide in Rwanda ; The Second Lebanon War ; Better safe than dead in Iraq -- pt. 2. Conflict theory as value theory: Limitations of social identity theories in relation to conflict analysis ; Understanding group identity as collective axiology ; The normative dimensions of identity conflicts ; Causality in explanations of civilian devastation.Why do civilians suffer most during times of violent conflict? Why are civilian fatalities as much as eight times higher, calculated globally for current conflicts, than military fatalities? In Why They Die , Daniel Rothbart and Karina V. Korostelina address these questions through a systematic study of civilian devastation in violent conflicts. Pushing aside the simplistic definition of war as a guns-and-blood battle between two militant groups, the authors investigate the identity politics underlying conflicts of many types. During a conflict, all those on the opposite side are perceived as the enemy, with little distinction between soldiers and civilians. As a result, random atrocities and systematic violence against civilian populations become acceptable.Rothbart and Korostelina devote the first half of the book to case studies: deportation of the Crimean Tatars from the Ukraine, genocide in Rwanda, the Lebanon War, and the war in Iraq. With the second half, they present new methodological tools for understanding different types of violent conflict and discuss the implications of these tools for conflict resolution.Civilians in warWar and societyWar (Philosophy)Sociology, MilitaryGroup identityMilitary history, Modern20th centuryMilitary history, Modern21st centuryCivilians in war.War and society.War (Philosophy)Sociology, Military.Group identity.Military history, ModernMilitary history, Modern355.02355.02zRothbart Daniel1528633Korostelina K. V853939Rothbart Daniel1528633Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)MiUMiUBOOK9910781483603321Why they die3868211UNINA