What are the causes of conflict that lead to unregulated violence?
Joseph S. Himes argued in Conflict & Conflict Management” that American life has always been characterized by violent conflict, involving virtually every sector and group at some time. This sure does give a new slant on that hackneyed conceit, Hey, were all in this together. Not. What follows are preconditions or causative factors for violence, violence that may occur given the right confluence of circumstances and a trigger event. Race The most violent region historically was the slave South. Slavery is by definition a violent institution. People don’t volunteer to become slaves. They are forced into it and held there against their will. If it was to maintain itself, the slave-holding South relied on the unfettered violence that reacted swiftly against anything from a recalcitrant slave to runaways to uprisings. Otherwise, slaves would have overthrown the system and white-dominated society disintegrated. Do you really think this tradition ended with the 13th Amendment? Jim Crow follow
