Blood Revenge in Irregular Warfare: Causes and Consequences of a Lingering Custom Colombo Roberto
Blood Revenge in Irregular Warfare: Causes and Consequences of a Lingering Custom Colombo Roberto This book offers an original assessment of the ways in which the sociocultural code of blood revenge…
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Blood Revenge in Irregular Warfare: Causes and Consequences of a Lingering Custom Colombo Roberto
This book offers an original assessment of the ways in which the sociocultural code of blood revenge and its modern remnants shape irregular warfare.Despite being a common driver of communal violence, blood revenge has received little attention from scholars. Drawing upon extensive multidisciplinary evidence, this book is the first in the literature on civil war and insurgency to analyse the impact of blood revenge and its modern remnants on irregular warfare. With many civil wars and insurgencies occurring in areas where the custom lingers, strengthening our understanding of blood revenge is essential for discerning how conflicts change and evolve.
At times of political instability, the presence of Even when blood revenge undergoes erosion, its unregulated version still shapes the social fabric of insurgency, although in different ways than its institutionalised counterpart.