Rethinking Extremism and Violence

Abstract

Four articles of this panel have concentrated on concept and mechanism of extremism & violence in our era. Robert Grafstein (University of Georgia SPIA) ask main question: “How Extremism is made, not born: The Political Economy of Extremism Regarding Redistribution”. His paper explain important connection between extremist behavior and extremist position in terms of the fundamental political economic behavior associated standard utility functions. R, Grafstein believes that radical extremism is different from reactionary extremism. Another article is about “perception of war” that has written by Deividas Slekys from Vilnius University. This paper explain different meaning of war in the west and in the eastern part of Europe. According to his argue, war understood instrumentally that we can limit and controlled it. In this opinion, war is a tool in the service of politics and war does not have autonomy. But in the east of Europe, war has clear existential meaning. “Socialization and Violence” is the third article of panel and title of Geffrey Chechel’s (from Simon Fraser University). J. Chechel’s paper examines a strong connection between new forms of socialization and violence. He argue that it is a key to understand violence in a variety of setting including civil war, national militaries, post conflict societies and urban panges. This paper empirically has studied the link between violence and socialization in southern and central America. Fourth and last article of our panel has written by Anne Katrine & Kreft Mattias Agerberg (University of Gothenburg). Their subject is “sexual violence and Gender Quota adoption at wartime. They have studied the implications of civil conflict for women’s legislative representation. This research turn to prevalence of sexual violence in conflict as a factor that increase pressure from below and above on governments to adopt gender quota.