Why do civilians suffer most during times of violent conflict?
Why are civilian fatalities as much as eight times higher,
calculated globally for current conflicts, than military
fatalities? In Why They Die, Daniel Rothbart and Karina V.
Korostelina address these questions through a systematic study of
civilian devastation in violent conflicts. Pushing aside the
simplistic definition of war as a guns-and-blood battle between two
militant groups, the authors investigate the identity politics
underlying conflicts of many types. During a conflict, all those on
the opposite side are perceived as the enemy, with little
distinction between soldiers and civilians. As a result, random
atrocities and systematic violence against civilian populations
become acceptable.
Rothbart and Korostelina devote the first half of the book to
case studies: deportation of the Crimean Tatars from the Ukraine,
genocide in Rwanda, the Lebanon War, and the war in Iraq. With the
second half, they present new methodological tools for
understanding different types of violent conflict and discuss the
implications of these tools for conflict resolution.
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