Anomie and Violence. Non-truth and Reconciliation in Indonesian Peacebuilding

2010/03/01 by John Braithwaite, Valerie Braithwaite, Michael S. Cookson +1 · 104 citations
Social Sciences · #Asian Studies and History #Political Conflict and Governance #Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography #Anomie #Indonesian #Peacebuilding #Terrorism #Criminology #Political science #Ethnic group #Sociology #Law

paper · pdf · doi:10.22459/av.03.2010

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Abstract

Indonesia suffered an explosion of religious violence, ethnic violence, separatist violence, terrorism, and violence by criminal gangs, the security forces and militias in the late 1990s and early 2000s. By 2002 Indonesia had the worst terrorism problem of any nation. All these forms of violence have now fallen dramatically. How was this accomplished? What drove the rise and

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