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Political Violence

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Politically motivated violence outside of the state’s control.

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3 reasons (I) for Political Violence

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Institutional, Ideational, Individual

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Institutional

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Institutions create contain values or norms that implicitly or explicitly encourage political violence, or constrain human activity, thus provoking political violence. Winner-take-all systems marginalize groups. Participation is blocked.

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Ideational

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Ideas that incite political violence. Radicalism, reactionism.

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Individual

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Single people feel the only way to be heard is through violence. Emotional and psychological explanations.

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Types of Political Violence

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Revolution and Terrorism

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Revolution

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Generally with positive connotations. Public seizure of the state in order to overturn the existing government and regime.

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Relative Deprivation Model

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A gap between actual conditions and expected conditions.

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Terrorism

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Use of violence by nonstate actors against civilians to achieve a political goal.

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State-sponsored terrorism

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States train terrorists.

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Guerilla War

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You know this.

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Nihilism

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A belief that all institutions and values are essentially meaningless and the only redeeming value one can embrace is violence. Violence valued for its own sake.