Inhalt: G. Elwert / S. Feuchtwang / D. Neubert, The Dynamics of Collective Violence. An Introduction - T. von Trotha, Forms of Martial Power: Total Wars, Wars of Pacification, and Raid. Some Observations on the Typology of Violence - P. Waldmann, Societies in Civil War - G. Elwert, Markets of Violence - J. Helbling, The Dynamics of War and Alliance Among the Yanomami - E. Alber, Violent Conflicts in West-African Borgu on the Eve of Colonisation - S. Schwandner-Sievers, Humiliation and Reconciliation in Northern Albania. The Logics of Feuding in Symbolic and Diachronic Perspectives - D. Neubert, Dynamics of Escalating Violence - T. Allen, War, Genocide, and Aid. The Genocide in Rwanda - G. Grohs, About the Role of Churches in the Peace Process in Africa and Central America - H. Schmidt, Neither War Nor Peace: Making Sense of Violence - I. Strecker, The Temptations of War and the Struggle for Peace Among the Hamar of Southern Ethiopia