| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 580 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Introduction: Peace after violence in Beslan -- Part 1. The Beslan School hostage taking. Grievances against ethnic rivals -- Political grievances -- The surprisingly nonviolent aftermath -- The surprisingly political aftermath -- Part 2. Why politics and nonviolence? Anger and other emotions -- Ethnic prejudice -- Political alienation and blame -- Social alienation versus social support -- Self-efficacy and political efficacy -- Biography (demographics, prior harm, and prior activism) -- A portrait of political activists and violent retaliators -- Part 3. Generalizing findings from Beslan victims. Should results apply to nonvictims? -- Should results apply to victims in other places and times? -- Conclusion: Peace after violence |
| Summary |
"Starting on September 1, 2004, and ending 53 hours later, Russia experienced its most appalling act of terrorism in history, the seizure of School No. 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia. Approximately 1,200 children, parents, and teachers were taken hostage, and over 330 -nearly one of every hundred Beslan residents- were killed, hundreds more seriously wounded, and all severely traumatized. After Violence is the first book to analyze the aftermath of such large-scale violence with evidence from almost all direct victims. It explores the motivations behind individual responses to violence. When does violence fuel greater acceptance of retaliatory violence, and when does violence fuel nonviolent participation in politics? The mass hostage taking was widely predicted to provoke a spiral of retaliatory ethnic violence in the North Caucasus, where the act of terror was embedded in a larger context of ongoing conflict between Ossetians, Ingush, and Chechens. Politicians, journalists, victims, and other local residents asserted that vengeance would come. Instead, the hostage taking triggered unprecedented peaceful political activism on a scale seen nowhere else in Russia. Beslan activists challenged authorities, endured official harassment, and won a historic victory against the Russian state in the European Court of Human Rights. After Violence provides insights into this unexpected but preferable outcome. Using systematic surveys of 1,098 victims (82%) and 2,043 nearby residents, in-depth focus groups, journalistic accounts, investigative reports, NGO reports, and prior scholarly research, After Violence offers novel findings about the influence of anger, prejudice, alienation, efficacy, and other variables on post-violence behavior"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2023) |
| Subject |
Beslan Massacre, Beslan, Russia, 2004.
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Terrorism -- Russia -- History -- 21st century
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Violence -- Psychological aspects
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Terrorism
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Violence -- Psychological aspects
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Social services & welfare, criminology.
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Society.
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Russia
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Russia (Federation) -- Beslan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022058619 |
| ISBN |
9780197683361 |
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0197683363 |
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0197683355 |
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9780197683378 |
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0197683371 |
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9780197683354 |
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