Joseph L. Soeters is a Professor of social sciences and organization studies at the Royal Netherlands' Military Academy, the Netherlands' Naval Academy and the Netherlands' War College; in addition, he is affiliated as a Professor in Organizational Sociology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands as well as TIAS Business School. Between 1999 and 2003 he acted as dean of the Military Academy. His main areas of interest are in the field of international (military) collaboration, post-conflict nation-building including civil-military cooperation, managing diversity and globalisation. He has published some 140 articles and chapters in edited volumes, both in Dutch and English (with some translations in German, Spanish, French and Russian). He (co-) edited five books, both in Dutch and English. He is involved with projects in Eritrea, Bolivia and the Baltic states. In the period 2002-2006 he acts as the Vice-President of the Research Committee "Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution" of the International Sociological Association.

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• 1. Introduction 2. Grid characteristics and group boundaries 3. Waning government, democratic deficit and strategic constellation 4. Violence as lacking control of emotions 5. Violence and culture 6. Rationalization of evil Part II Micro and Short-Term Factors 7. Group building, stereotyping and ideologizing 8. Social mobilisation and leadership 9. Rising expectations, relative deprivation and reduction of power distance 10. The dynamics of conflict itself 11. Conclusions and implications

Joseph L. Soeters is a Professor of social sciences and organization studies at the Royal Netherlands' Military Academy, the Netherlands' Naval Academy and the Netherlands' War College; in addition, he is affiliated as a Professor in Organizational Sociology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands as well as TIAS Business School. Between 1999 and 2003 he acted as dean of the Military Academy. His main areas of interest are in the field of international (military) collaboration, post-conflict nation-building including civil-military cooperation, managing diversity and globalisation. He has published some 140 articles and chapters in edited volumes, both in Dutch and English (with some translations in German, Spanish, French and Russian). He (co-) edited five books, both in Dutch and English. He is involved with projects in Eritrea, Bolivia and the Baltic states. In the period 2002-2006 he acts as the Vice-President of the Research Committee "Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution" of the International Sociological Association.

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• 1. Introduction 2. Grid characteristics and group boundaries 3. Waning government, democratic deficit and strategic constellation 4. Violence as lacking control of emotions 5. Violence and culture 6. Rationalization of evil Part II Micro and Short-Term Factors 7. Group building, stereotyping and ideologizing 8. Social mobilisation and leadership 9. Rising expectations, relative deprivation and reduction of power distance 10. The dynamics of conflict itself 11. Conclusions and implications

Joseph L. Soeters is a Professor of social sciences and organization studies at the Royal Netherlands' Military Academy, the Netherlands' Naval Academy and the Netherlands' War College; in addition, he is affiliated as a Professor in Organizational Sociology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands as well as TIAS Business School. Between 1999 and 2003 he acted as dean of the Military Academy. His main areas of interest are in the field of international (military) collaboration, post-conflict nation-building including civil-military cooperation, managing diversity and globalisation. He has published some 140 articles and chapters in edited volumes, both in Dutch and English (with some translations in German, Spanish, French and Russian). He (co-) edited five books, both in Dutch and English. He is involved with projects in Eritrea, Bolivia and the Baltic states. In the period 2002-2006 he acts as the Vice-President of the Research Committee "Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution" of the International Sociological Association.

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• 1. Introduction 2. Grid characteristics and group boundaries 3. Waning government, democratic deficit and strategic constellation 4. Violence as lacking control of emotions 5. Violence and culture 6. Rationalization of evil Part II Micro and Short-Term Factors 7. Group building, stereotyping and ideologizing 8. Social mobilisation and leadership 9. Rising expectations, relative deprivation and reduction of power distance 10. The dynamics of conflict itself 11. Conclusions and implications