What counts as violence?

How does violence vary?

How/why does violence happen?

What makes violence ethnic or racial?

Taxation?

• Who does it?
• What do they do?
• How do they do it?
• To whom to do they do it?
• How often do they do it?

How violence happens can give us clues to:

• why is it being done?
• what are constraints/options available to perpetrators?

Who is the (intended) audience?

What is the (intended) message?

Organization vs participation

Capacity for violence

Is it simply an unfortunate means to an end?

Do they know they are doing the "wrong" thing?

Do they think they are doing the right thing?

Why is some violence "right" and other violence "wrong"?

• Is it only about who does it to whom?
• Is it about the motive?