Patrick Barron is Regional Advisor for the World Bank. He previously served as Regional Director at The Asia Foundation and led the World Bank's conflict programming in Indonesia for seven years. He is coauthor of the award-winning Contesting Development and has written for World Development, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of East Asian Studies.

• List of Tables and FiguresPrefaceIntroduction1. Studying Postconflict Violence: Approaches and Methods2. Explaining Postconflict Violence: Evidence, Theories, and Arguments3. Violence and Indonesia's Democratic Transition4. Large Episodic Violence in Postconflict Maluku5. North Maluku's Peace6. Small Episodic Violence in Postconflict Aceh7. Why Has Extended Violent Conflict Not Recurred?ConclusionsGlossaryAppendix. The National Violence Monitoring System DatasetNotesReferencesIndex

Judging from the informative stories that Barron uses to illustrate his analysis, primal hatreds still fuel conflict and do not yield easily to institutional fixes.(Foreign Affairs) This is the first comprehensive book on post-conflict violence in Indonesia...The title perfectly tells what the book does. Barron eloquently explains when violence works by systematically identifying two local actors (local violence specialists and local politicians) and their involvements in violence. The book explains why, how and in what circumstances different scales of post-conflict violence emerge.- MOHAMMAD ZULFAN TADJOEDDIN, Western Sydney University, Australia (PACIFIC AFFAIRS)

Patrick Barron is Regional Advisor for the World Bank. He previously served as Regional Director at The Asia Foundation and led the World Bank's conflict programming in Indonesia for seven years. He is coauthor of the award-winning Contesting Development and has written for World Development, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of East Asian Studies.

• List of Tables and FiguresPrefaceIntroduction1. Studying Postconflict Violence: Approaches and Methods2. Explaining Postconflict Violence: Evidence, Theories, and Arguments3. Violence and Indonesia's Democratic Transition4. Large Episodic Violence in Postconflict Maluku5. North Maluku's Peace6. Small Episodic Violence in Postconflict Aceh7. Why Has Extended Violent Conflict Not Recurred?ConclusionsGlossaryAppendix. The National Violence Monitoring System DatasetNotesReferencesIndex

Judging from the informative stories that Barron uses to illustrate his analysis, primal hatreds still fuel conflict and do not yield easily to institutional fixes.(Foreign Affairs) This is the first comprehensive book on post-conflict violence in Indonesia...The title perfectly tells what the book does. Barron eloquently explains when violence works by systematically identifying two local actors (local violence specialists and local politicians) and their involvements in violence. The book explains why, how and in what circumstances different scales of post-conflict violence emerge.- MOHAMMAD ZULFAN TADJOEDDIN, Western Sydney University, Australia (PACIFIC AFFAIRS)

Patrick Barron is Regional Advisor for the World Bank. He previously served as Regional Director at The Asia Foundation and led the World Bank's conflict programming in Indonesia for seven years. He is coauthor of the award-winning Contesting Development and has written for World Development, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of East Asian Studies.

• List of Tables and FiguresPrefaceIntroduction1. Studying Postconflict Violence: Approaches and Methods2. Explaining Postconflict Violence: Evidence, Theories, and Arguments3. Violence and Indonesia's Democratic Transition4. Large Episodic Violence in Postconflict Maluku5. North Maluku's Peace6. Small Episodic Violence in Postconflict Aceh7. Why Has Extended Violent Conflict Not Recurred?ConclusionsGlossaryAppendix. The National Violence Monitoring System DatasetNotesReferencesIndex

Judging from the informative stories that Barron uses to illustrate his analysis, primal hatreds still fuel conflict and do not yield easily to institutional fixes.(Foreign Affairs) This is the first comprehensive book on post-conflict violence in Indonesia...The title perfectly tells what the book does. Barron eloquently explains when violence works by systematically identifying two local actors (local violence specialists and local politicians) and their involvements in violence. The book explains why, how and in what circumstances different scales of post-conflict violence emerge.- MOHAMMAD ZULFAN TADJOEDDIN, Western Sydney University, Australia (PACIFIC AFFAIRS)