Focus: Is a General Theory of Violence Possible? (Guest Editors: Manuel Eisner and Susanne Karstedt)

• Susanne Karstedt and Manuel Eisner: Introduction: Is a General Theory of Violence Possible?
• Randall Collins: Micro and Macro Causes of Violence
• Richard B. Felson: Violence, Crime, and Violent Crime
• Manuel Eisner: The Uses of Violence: An Examination of some Cross-Cutting Issues
• Charles Tittle: Is a General Theory of Socially Disapproved Violence Possible (or Necessary)?
• Per-Olof H. Wikström and Kyle H. Treiber: Violence as Situational Action
• Martin Shaw: Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks for Organised Violence
  

Open Section

• Marcel M. Baumann: Understanding the Other’s "Understanding" of Violence: Legitimacy, Recognition, and the Challenge of Dealing with the Past in Divided Societies
• Renate Möller, Uwe Sander, Arne Schäfer, Dirk Villányi, and Matthias D. Witte: Motive Structures and Violence among Young Globalization Critics. A Statistical Typology of the Motives for Protest at the 2007 G8 Summit
  

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The International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV) is a peer-reviewed periodical for scientific exchange and public dissemination of the latest academic research on conflict and violence. The subjects on which the IJCV concentrates have always been the subject of interest in many different areas of academic life. Consequently, the journal encompasses contributions from a wide range of disciplines including sociology, political science, education, social psychology, criminology, ethnology, history, political philosophy, urban studies, economics, and the study of religions. The IJCV is open-access: all articles are available to all on the internet, free of charge and without restriction.

The IJCV is edited by Wilhelm Heitmeyer (University of Bielefeld), Douglas S. Massey (Princeton University), Steven F. Messner (University of Albany, NY), James Sidanius (Harvard University), and Michel Wieviorka (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris).

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