Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- The Logic of Violence in Civil War
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 CONCEPTS
- 2 PATHOLOGIES
- 3 BARBARISM
- 4 A THEORY OF IRREGULAR WAR I
- 5 A THEORY OF IRREGULAR WAR II
- 6 A LOGIC OF INDISCRIMINATE VIOLENCE
- 7 A THEORY OF SELECTIVE VIOLENCE
- 8 EMPIRICS I
- 9 EMPIRICS II
- 10 INTIMACY
- 11 CLEAVAGE AND AGENCY
- CONCLUSION
- Appendix A Data Sources
- Appendix B Coding Protocols
- Appendix C Timeline of Conflicts
- References
- Index
- Titles in the series
10 - INTIMACY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- The Logic of Violence in Civil War
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 CONCEPTS
- 2 PATHOLOGIES
- 3 BARBARISM
- 4 A THEORY OF IRREGULAR WAR I
- 5 A THEORY OF IRREGULAR WAR II
- 6 A LOGIC OF INDISCRIMINATE VIOLENCE
- 7 A THEORY OF SELECTIVE VIOLENCE
- 8 EMPIRICS I
- 9 EMPIRICS II
- 10 INTIMACY
- 11 CLEAVAGE AND AGENCY
- CONCLUSION
- Appendix A Data Sources
- Appendix B Coding Protocols
- Appendix C Timeline of Conflicts
- References
- Index
- Titles in the series
Summary
“And let's not yet say whether war works evil or good,” I said, “but only this much, that we have in its turn found the origin of war – in those things whose presence in cities most of all produces evils both private and public.”
Plato, The RepublicI should not return to Uyo, for my people were after my blood.
Jeremiah Mose Essien, In the Shadow of Death: Personal Recollections of Events during the Nigerian Civil WarAll the terrible things come from inside the village, not from outside.
A Greek villagerAfter he had confronted his old friend and neighbor Sir Ralph Hopton, Sir William Waller called the English Civil War a “warr without an Enemie” (quoted in McGrath 1997:91). For him, the real enemy could only be foreign and unfamiliar.
Civil war fails to supply such enemies, for it is mostly an intimate war taking place “on home ground against the home-grown” (Donagan 1994:1137). Even when civil war supplies foreign enemies, as is the case with occupation and foreign intervention, the foreigners acquire local allies who tend to focalize the antagonism of their local rivals.
Intimacy is essential rather than incidental to civil war: it defines “civil war in its most basic sense” (Ash 1995:125); it is a “fratricidal” war “against our selves, our brothers,” as the English Civil War was described by contemporary participants (Donagan 1994:1166); it divides families, pitting brothers and sisters, parents and children, against each other (e.g., S. Dillon 1991:xiii; West 1985:132).
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- The Logic of Violence in Civil War , pp. 330 - 363Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006