Violence is a prevalent and persistent theme in all aspects of
human affairs. A comprehensive understanding of violence therefore
requires exposure to the research coming out from all the
disciplines in the social sciences: their different methodologies,
findings and insights.
This book promotes the merits of an interdisciplinary agenda. By
bringing together scholars of violence working in political
science, political theory, international relations, economics,
philosophy, sociology, psychology and public health, this book
explores the complexity of violence and the interface between the
empirical and normative dimensions central to this problem. The aim
is to investigate the ways in which a correct understanding of this
phenomenon must deal with both empirical and normative issues.
There is a tendency for scholars of violence to work
predominantly within the narrow parameters of their own discipline:
philosophers tend to read fellow philosophers on violence;
criminologists tend to rely on the work of fellow criminologists;
sociologists tend to trust the writings of fellow sociologists; and
so on. This book invites the reader to embrace an interdisciplinary
approach towards the universal problem of violence. (178 words)
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