Political geography II: Violence

This report focuses on the diverse and multiple manifestations of political, state, counter-state violence. Many examinations political violence in this highlight continued need for disparate methodological analytic lenses towards robust understandings across scales. Displacements mobilities associated with flight from conflict are discussed relation to institutionalization harm, trauma containment through various state supranational mechanisms control. These include border crossings against vulnerable populations seeking refuge. is buttressed by discursive binary logics, such as us/them categorizations, which remain endemic both structural physical foundational right wing populism, jingoism, other forms extremism. concludes arguing peace not opposite war but rather its temporal substitute partner an assemblage economic co-dependence.