Insurgencies continue to proliferate around the globe. While U.S. political and military leaders are eager to put counterinsurgency operations in the rear-view mirror, insurgency warfare is prolific. From the Philippines to Mexico, from Mali to China, from Chechnya to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, insurgency is the dominant strategic challenge of the early 21 century. The existing acade...

In 1996, the World Health Organization declared violence a major and growing public health problem across the world. In Spain, despite the growing incidence of reports of deaths and abuse due to intimate partners violence; the emergent data on school-based violence among children and adolescents; the persisting political violence and the tragic experience of the 11-M attacks in Madrid; a clear ...

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 contain...

Feminist studies have rejected the assumption according to which gender violence is an individual or private issue that has be primarily approached from a psychological perspective. They underscored link between and other factors of social inequalities. Feminists contend men use as means exercise power over women. defended idea against women form political violence. Marxist/materialist feminism...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cost of political violence in terms of human life and its influence on social, psychological and financial aspects of community. DESIGN Retrospective study conducted from 1987 to 1989. SETTING Department of Accident and Emergency, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi. SAMPLE SIZE Nine hundred and fifty four victims including two hundred and fifty seven dea...