Cutting the Ties That Bind: Communal Punishment and Counterinsurgency

• In Event: Violence within Conflicts

Brief Overview

We highlight a conceptual distinction between communal punishment & related concepts of indiscriminate violence and mass killing. It identifies conditions under which rational states will pursue communal punishment as a means of counterinsurgency.

Authors

• Donald Michael Beaudette, Oxford College of Emory University

• MK Healy, Emory University