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I'm looking for interesting readings about the organizational and social dynamics of conflict. Examples I'd put in this category include Scott's The Art of Not Being Governed, Kilcullen's Out of the Mountains, and the 2018 Woods paper on Graceful Extensibility. What else should I be reading?

simsa02

@dymaxion
I'd have a look into lateral violence, not top-down but sideways violence. Violence between peers in reaction to violence from top or afar. There seems to be a lot of literature on that topic.

No, otherwise I would have posted them. Just the topic and what I've seen so far in the context of indigenous communities, domestic violence, suppression of women, etc.

Its discussed a lot in indigenous circles, see, e.g., here:
https://www.nwac.ca/assets-knowledge-centre/2011-Aboriginal-Lateral-Violence.pdf
https://www.wernative.org/articles/lateral-violence
https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/lateral-violence-explained-how-to-deal-with-its-many-forms/f6s54whcp
https://www.safework.nsw.gov.au/safety-starts-here/our-aboriginal-program/culturally-safe-workplaces/lateral-violence

As far as I remember, in the past 20 to 30 years indigenous communities came up with a many programs to address lateral violence. Their strartegies may be of insgight to you.

Putting "lateral violence" and "indigenous" into Google immediatedly yielded: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10240644/ which looks promising

#indigeneity #lateral #violence