Rage and the Machines? Force Mechanization and Violence against Civilians

Peacekeeping & Violence against Civilians

Cain's Choice: Causes of One-sided Violence against Civilians

Conflict researchers are divided on what explains the massive victimisation and murdering of civilians and unarmed combatants, but largely agree that many of these acts are intentional and that the main perpetrators rely on them for economic or political gain. The terror strategies against civilians, which the scholarly literature has recently dubbed one-sided violence, take for instance the fo...

Strategic Protection, Pro-Government Interventions, and Violence against Civilians in Civil Wars

Rivalry and Revenge: Making Sense of Violence against Civilians in Conventional Civil Wars

Recent research on violence against civilians during wars has emphasized warrelated factors over political ones. For example, factors such as control of territory or characteristics of the armed groups have been prioritized at the expense of factors such as ideological alignments or local political competition. In this paper, I argue that the emphasis on war-related factors is conditioned by th...

P-151: Violence Against Women and Children:Causes, Challenges and Prevention

Background: Violence against women is a problem of public health on a global scale. Two decades of international research organizations including the World Health Organization show the problem of violence against women is more serious and more common than was previously considered. These studies aimed to investigate, the most common causes of violence against women and prevention strategy from ...