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This document discusses three perspectives on collective violence in ethnic conflicts. The first views violence as "eruptions" caused by underlying tensions that breach social order. The second sees violence as performative and ritualized, related to cultural practices like festivals. The third perspective applies to chronic conflicts where violence has become a permanent state and a mode of conducting politics, with both sides developing military operations and strategies of violence. The document then pro

Author

Murilo Guimarães

Language

EN