Political Violence

This section, organised by the Standing Group on Political Violence, maps new developments in research on political violence. This includes both research on recent trends in political violence, as well as new directions in research on various manifestations of political violence. In line with the mission of the standing group to functions as a meeting place for various traditions in political violence research, it welcomes papers and panels on various forms of dissent, including protest demonstrations, industrial conflict, riots, lone actor violence, hate crimes and extremism, civil wars and insurgencies, including also new and emerging ways of protest and political violence. Particularly welcome are papers and panels which cross and challenge traditional boundaries within the research on political violence. This can mean the use of multidisciplinary approaches, non-conventional methods, or analysing the relations between the use of various forms of political violence (or violent and non-violent methods). The section also encourages to submit papers that take a holistic and relational approach to processes of political violence, analysing the interplay between different state and non-state actors in the context, including also publics’ perceptions of political violence. This time, the section invites papers providing novel insights on particularly (but not exclusively) on following topics: ▪️ Religiously inspired terrorism and radicalisation ▪️ Citizens’ perceptions and experiences of political violence and extremism ▪️ Far-right extremist practices and discourses, relationship between mainstream politics and extremism ▪️ Radical direct action and protest violence ▪️ Intergenerational diffusion of political violence ▪️ Relationship between the use of violent and non-violent tactics ▪️ Strategies of preventing and fostering resilience to violent extremism ▪️ Revisiting historical cases of terrorism, especially in West Germany and Italy ▪️ Counterterrorism in Britain, British responses to several incidents of political violence The Standing Group on Political Violence will award a Best Paper Award for the best paper presented in this section. In order to be considered, the paper should be unpublished at the time of the conference and its main author(s) must have received their PhD degree in 2014 or later.