Violent situations: A Typology

Question 1

What is the most important thing to be able to do, in order to perform violence according to Collins?

Answer 1

• Control the flow of adrenalin.

Question 2

Are DRIA based on individuals or situations and why is this important?

Answer 2

• Situations! In order to be able to perform violence, what is important is neither your ideology nor your aggressiveness. What is important is your capability of creating violent situations. Which is what makes you able to keep adrenalin under control.

Question 3

What are the five kinds of violent situations?

Answer 3

• 1. Attacking the weak (either a weak person, or a situation, hwere the person becomes weak)
• 2. Audience-oriented, staged and controlled fair-fights (focusing on the audience, on being impressive, rather than the violence itself)
• 3. Strike over long distance (seeing people suffer is difficult)
• 4. Strategic use of deceit (approach the victim without letting him now, that you intend on attacking him)
• 5. Concentrate more on the technical expertise than the the suffering of the victim (for instance what snipers does)

Question 4

What does Orisini do to analyse the control of adrenalin/weather terrorists show courage? Give an example.

Answer 4

• Interview a series of convicted terrorists. One of them is Massimiliano, who describes, how he plans the terrorattack into the smallest detail, so he does not risk anything himself, and is therefor able to control the adrenalin flow.
• All examples are of extreme left terrorists.

Question 5

Why is it hard to control the flow of adrenalin for a terrorist?

Answer 5

• Like most other people, they are afraid. Afraid of dying and afraid of being caught or hurt.
• Therefor the extreme left terrorists perform “vile” violence, which means violence towards people, who can not defend themselves.