Culture and collective violence: How good people, usually men, do bad things

Voices of Trauma: Treating Psychological Trauma Across Cultures

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 27-58

  Bond, Michael Harris ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-69797-0_2     Document Type: Chapter

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