Reflections on violence today / Henry Bernstein, Colin Leys, and Leo Panitch -- American militarism and the U.S. political establishment : the real lessons of the invasion of Iraq / Vivek Chibber -- On-screen barbarism : violence in U.S. visual culture / Philip Green -- Race, prisons and war : scenes from the history of U.S. violence / Ruth Wilson Gilmore -- State talk, state silence : work and 'violence' in the UK / Joe Sim and Steve Tombs -- Violence's victims : the gender landscape / Lynne Segal -- Girls as disposable commodities in India / Barbara Harriss-White -- India's paradigmatic communal violence / Achin Vanaik -- Reflections on Indonesian violence : two tales and three silences / Tania Murray Li -- Colombia : old and new patterns of violence / Ulrich Oslender -- The commodification of violence in the Niger Delta / Sofiri Joab-Peterside and Anna Zalik -- Revolutionaries, barbarians or war machines? Gangs in Nicaragua and South Africa / Dennis Rodgers and Steffen Jensen -- Emancipation and the left : the issue of violence / Michael Brie -- The defense of humanity requires the radicalization of popular struggles / Samir Amin -- Human shield / John Berger.