Whether To Kill The Cognitive Maps Of Violent And Nonviolent Individuals Stephanie Dornschneider by Stephanie Dornschneider 9780812247701, 0812247701 instant download after payment.

: Why do some individuals take up arms, while others who live under the same conditions conduct nonviolent activities instead? This book is dedicated to investigating this question. Focusing on the individuals who take up arms, this question explores areas that may have been overlooked by the large body of lit erature on violent groups. Specifi cally, focusing on groups cannot explain why certain individuals but not others form or join violent groups, carry out par tic u lar attacks, or sometimes break away from their groups. Th e central argument in my investigation of this question is that, contrary to widespread assumptions, both violent and nonviolent individuals act in response to the belief that the state is aggressive. Unlike what is widely believed, I also fi nd that violent individuals do not act in response to beliefs in Islam. Instead, I argue that the motivations of violent and nonviolent individuals are surprisingly similar, and that there are no signifi cant diff erences between Muslims and non- Muslims. Specifi cally, my analy sis identifi es ten mechanisms related to decisions to take up arms (five mechanisms) and to engage in nonviolent activism (five mechanisms).