Beslan and the study of violence |
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| Authors: | Kristin M Bakke |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geography, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland;2. Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada;3. Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom;4. Association for Historical Dialogue and Research, Home for Cooperation, 28 Marcou Dracou St, Nicosia 1102, Cyprus;5. Departments of Geography and Women’s Studies, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA |
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| Abstract: | “Placing blame: Making sense of Beslan” by Gerard Toal (in this issue) is an insightful analysis of the terrorist attack on Beslan's School Number 1, demonstrating how the various actors involved in, and affected by, the attack made sense of it. Toal documents that many of the frames used to justify or interpret the attack employ “indiscriminate blaming.” This commentary raises three points. First, it places the lecture within the recent trend of disaggregating the study of civil war and ethnic conflict. Second, it comments on the lecture's assumption that there is a causal link between indiscriminate blaming and violence. Third, it inquires about the sources of indiscriminate blaming. |
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