Eskalation und Deeskalation sozialer Konflikte: Der Weg in die Gewalt

Eckert, Roland; Willems, Helmut

doi:10.1007/978-3-322-80376-4_61

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“…Although conflicts occur broadly in a variety of situations, cultures, and countries, violent incidents are rare, as "violence breaks with ordinary reality" (Collins, 2008, p. 130). Even though everybody could use violence at any time (Eckert & Willems, 2002, p. 1475, actors have so many alternative options of action that they usually choose another action. Thus, violence is used by only a few people and only in rare situations (Collins, 2008, p. 14).…”

Section: The Unlikeliness Of Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are many occasions on which people feel hate toward others and are therefore motivated to use violence, but normally they do not (Collins, 2008;Klusemann, 2009). While violence is an available resource for any person at any time (Eckert & Willems, 2002, p. 1475, the choice to use violence depends on a wide range of alternative options of action. In this paper, I claim that the emotion of hate does not necessarily result in violent action.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…I claim that the sequence of microinteractions producing these emotional dynamics should be put at the center of attention when analyzing the emergence of violence. Several event courses in contentious politics (Tarrow & Tilly, 2007) and several event sequences and escalation courses (Eckert & Willems, 2002) recur repeatedly. We can find these sequences in connection with civil wars, police arrests, and massacres (Collins, 2008;Klusemann, 2009), and even in generally peaceful social movement demonstrations (Nassauer, 2010).…”

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From Hate to Collective Violence: Research and Practical Implications

Nassauer¹

2011

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This paper deals with the question of how hate leads to collective physical violence: Why is it that people who are filled with hateful emotions sometimes use violent action but mostly do not? By themselves, underlying emotions such as hate are not sufficient conditions for physical violence. However, emotions are not irrelevant for the emergence of violence. My main argument is that situational interaction sequences create emotional dynamics that make collective actors overcome their inhibition threshold and act violently. Insights into the micro-timing of interaction sequences prior to violence are therefore crucial. As social movement demonstrations have recently become reconstructable in great detail, they are especially promising for analyzing the connection of micro-timings to collective violence. If we are able to identify sequences of micro-interactions and emotional dynamics leading to violence, we might be able to avoid violence by interrupting decisive sequences.

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Section: The Unlikeliness Of Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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