Inhaltsangabe1. Theoretical and analytical framework



2. Control and loss of control in an historical perspective

Policining youth protests and juvenile delinquency in Germany from the 1950s until 1980s



Anarchist terrorism in imperial Germany and third Republic France



Deescalation by Communication? Dealing with Left-Wing Terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s



Ethnic riots in situations of loss of control: regime change, civil war and revolution as opportunity structures for anti-Jewish violence in 19-20th century Europe



Control of violence by gun-control. Concepts and activities in the German Empire 1871 - 1914



Loss of Control over Small-Group Clandestine Violence: The Case of German Terrorism in the Long Twentieth-Century



Making war and crafting peace in contemporary Africa

The neglected significance of skill formation in control of violence



Violence control beyond the state? The case of DR Congo



"You can't be donated power": Altruistic Intervention, Political Violence, and Post-War Reconstruction - the role of 'external' actors in the control of violence

3. Multidisciplinary perspectives on violence

Nature of Violence



The modernity of violence: decivilizing processes



Giving an end to violence



Emerging evidence for the theory of low-status compensation and its relationship to violence



4. The MicroLevel: SchoolShootings



School Shootings: Perceived losses of control - attempts to regain control



School violence and its control in the USA and Germany since the 1950s



School shootings: Specific problems of control



Prevention, Intervention and Coping with School Shootings (reprint)



5. The MesoLevel: Terrorism

Local roots and transnationalism of 'Islamist' terrorism



Out of control? Explaining terrorist violence from a Jihadi perspective



Transformations of terrorism. The performative character of political violence.



The radical milieu: pathways to joining terrorist groups



The Grotesque Body and Mystical Conquest: The Case of Shi'i Cult of Martyrdom



6. The Macro Level: Violence in fragile states

Modern Barbarism and the propects of civilization. Eliasion themes in an African context

Controlling violence in the failed state: An examination of the UN's disarmament, demobilization and reintegration



Using fuel to put out a fire? Violence control in the context of 'fragile' states - the case of vigilantism in Nigeria



Oil in the Niger Delta - militancy and the challenge of violence control



Climate change and conflict



7. Mechanisms and "tools" of control

8. Case studies on the mechanism of control

Religions actors and their potential of containing violence



Impact of religion on prevention and control of violence



Religious communities as violent actors



SelfControl and the Management of Violence



Conscience as an element of self-control



Opportunities for de-radicalizing radical milieus



Learning terrorism behind individual and collective disengagement



Violence, control and the body



CrossNational Homicide Trends in the Latter Decades of the 20th Century: Losses and Gains in Institutional Control?



9. Conclusion

Loss of control? In what cases and under what circumstances.