Table of Contents

Part 1 Persisting violence: the warring state in China as institution and idea, Mark Lewis; payback and ritual in war in New Guinea, Gilbert Lewis; communal violence in northern Ghana - unaccepted war, Susan Drucker-Brown; nationalist imaginings of war in Cyprus, Yiannis Papadakis; families in conflict - pervasive violence in Northern Ireland, Dominic Murray; a very modern war - terror and territory in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Cornelia Sorabji. Part 2 Enhancing motivation: war and peace - the socialization of children, Sharon Smith and Linda Siegel; war and militarism, Hylke Tromp; the knights of the sky and the myth of the war experience, George Mosse; the role of the mass media in modern wars, Jo Groebel; patriotism and nationalism, two components of national identity with different implications for war and peace, Sy Feshbach; war and religion - an unholy alliance?, Helen Watson. Part 3 The sub-institutions: modern Japan and war - a problem with the past, Joe McDermott; economics and conflict, Robert Nield; lack of parliamentary accountability and its effect on arms build-up, Scilla Elworthy; the arms trade, Michael Brzoska.