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Culture and Collective Violence: How Good People, Usually Men, do Bad Things

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Bond, M.H. (2007). Culture and Collective Violence: How Good People, Usually Men, do Bad Things. In: Drožđek, B., Wilson, J.P. (eds) Voices of Trauma. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-69797-0_2

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