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Table of Contents Introduction: Violence Viewed and Reviewed Charles Tilly Film Violence and the Institutionalization of Cinema J. David Slocum Emotions as Mediators and Modulators of Violence: Some Reflections on the “Seville Statement on Violence” D. Caroline Blanchard and Robert J. Blanchard The Political Economy of Protection Rackets in the Past and the Present Vadim Volkov Punishment and Violence: Is the Criminal Law Based on One Huge Mistake? James Gilligan Violence, Identity and Spaces of Contention in Chile, Argentina, and Colombia Cathy Lisa Schneider The Political Economy of Violence Against Women During Armed Conflict in Uganda Meredeth Turshen A Woman’s Place: Reflections on the Origins of Violence Martin Van Creveld Investigating Criminal Violence Robert Jackall The Time of Kali: Violence Between Religious Groups in India Sudhir Kakar

Recommended Reading International Justice, War Crimes, and Terrorism: The U.S. Record Vol. 69 No. 4 (Winter 2002) On Violence: Paradoxes and Antinomies Vol. 48 No. 1 (Spring 1981)

Caroline Blanchard is Research Professor at the Pacific Biomedical Research Center and Professor of Genetics and Molecular Biology at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii.  Robert J. Blanchard is Professor of Psychology and Neurosciences at the University of Hawaii.  Their coauthored paper "Mouse Defensive Behaviors: Behavioral Assays for Within-species Analysis and Models for Cross-species Investigations" is forthcoming in Neurosciences and Biobehavioral Reviews (2000).  Their previous work includes "Continuity vs (Political) Correctness: Animal Models and Human Aggression" (in Haug and Whalen, eds., 1999) and "Affect and Aggression: An Animal Model Applied to Human Behavior" (in Blanchard and Blanchard, eds., 1984).

James Gilligan is currently conducting research on violence prevention in California jails and prisons, as Director of the Center for the Study of Violence.  As a psychiatrist on  the faculty of the Harvard Medical School, where he directed the Institute of Law and Psychiatry, Gilligan provided mental health services for 25 years to the Massachusetts prison system.  He is the author of Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic (1997) and of the forthcoming Preventing Violence: An Agenda for the Coming Century (2001).

Robert Jackall is Class of 1956 Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at Williams College, is the author of Wild Cowboys: Urban Marauders and The Forces of Order (1997) and Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers (1988), and  co-author (with J. Hirota) of Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy (2000).  He has co-edited several volumes, including Metropolis: Center and Symbol of Our Times (1994), and is currently writing an ethnography of the world of police detectives.

Sudhir Kakar is a  Psychoanalyst in New Delhi, India.  He is the author of The Colors of Violence: Cultural Identities, Religion, and Conflict (1996); his other works include Culture and Psyche: Psychoanalysis and India (1997), Shamans, Mystics, and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions (1991) and The Inner World: A Psycho-Analytic Study of Childhood and Society in India (1990).

Cathy Lisa Schneider is Associate Professor at the School of International Service, American University, and the author of Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile (1995).   Her publications also include “"Racism, Drug Policy and AIDS" (Political Science Quarterly, 1998) and "Framing Puerto Rican Identity" (Mobilization, 1997). This article in Social Research is part of a larger comparative project on State Violence, Identity Construction and Spaces of Resistance.

J. David Slocum is Assistant Dean in the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University, where he teaches Cinema Studies.  He is editor of Violence and American Cinema, which is forthcoming in November 2000.  His essays and reviews on violence, media, and culture have appeared in the American Historical Review, Cineaste, Times Literary Supplement, and Media, Culture, and Society.  Currently he is writing a book on violence and cyberspace.

Charles Tilly is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. His most recent books are How Social Movements Matter (1999), Expanding Citizenship, Reconfiguring States (1999), From Contention to Democracy (1998), Transforming Post-Communist Political Economies (1998), Durable Inequality (1998), Work Under Capitalism (1998), and Roads from Past to Future (1997).

Meredith Turshen is Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Community Health at Rutgers University.  Author of What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa (1998) and Privatizing Health Service in Africa (1999), she is Research CoChair of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars and a member of the Editorial Board for the Review of African Political Economy.  She is currently editing African Women's Health (forthcoming, 2000).

Vadim Volkov is Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology (on leave) at the
Department of the European University at St. Petersburg (Russia) and SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, Program on Peace and International Security in a Changing World.  Among his recent publications are “Violent Entrepreneurship in Post-Communist Russia” (Europe-Asia Studies, 1999) and “Organized Violence, Market Building, and State Formation in Post-Communist Russia” (in Ledeneva and Kurkchiyan, eds., 2000).

Martin Van Creveld is Professor of History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  His recent publications include The Transformation of War (Free Press, 1990); The Sword and the Olive: a Critical History of the Israel Defense Force (Public Affairs, 1998); The Rise and Decline of the State (Cambridge University Press, 1999); The Art of War: Warfare and Military Thought (Cassel, 2000).  He is currently at work on a book entitled From the Amazons to GI Jane:  Women, Men and War.