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I shall start this chapter by exploring some conceptual issues related to the thorny problem of defining ‘violence’ and related terms such as ‘aggression’. I shall then become more concrete and discuss various manifestations of violence using a long-term perspective. More particularly, I shall discuss aspects of war, genocide, crime, punishment, and violence in and in relation to leisure and sport, basing my arguments mainly on secondary sources.1
An obvious omission from this collection of topics is the various forms of terrorism.
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Dunning, E. (2008). Violence and Violence-Control in Long-Term Perspective: ‘Testing’ Elias in Relation to War, Genocide, Crime, Punishment and Sport. In: Body-Gendrot, S., Spierenburg, P. (eds) Violence in Europe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09705-3_13
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