Coordinated violence ranges from improvised to centrally scripted

Evidence

The second dimension represents extent of coordination among violent actors. The definition of collective violence with which this chapter began incorporated a minimum position on this dimension: it insisted on at least two perpetrators of damage and some coordination among perpetrators. Below that threshold, we call violence “individual.” Nevertheless, collective coordination can run from no more than improvised signaling and/or common culture (low) to involvement of centralized organizations whose leaders follow shared scripts as they deliberately guide followers into violence-generating interactions with others (high). At the low end we find such events as barroom brawls, at the high end pitched battles between opposing armies. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 725

Categorization

• DEFINE: Completes the two-axis typology with the coordination dimension, distinguishing ‘individual’ violence (one perpetrator) from collective.
• XREF: The low/high coordination continuum parallels the reader’s interest in whether state violence (highly coordinated) and civil-society violence (less so) occupy structurally different cells — relevant to testing institutional absorption. — connects to: Violence is mapped by damage salience and actor coordination — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 724; Terrorist violence within a single conflict can vary in coordination level — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 826; Low- and high-coordination violence complement each other within sustained campaigns — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 826 (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 725

Broader Connections

• Terrorist violence within a single conflict can vary in coordination level #exemplifies (0.88) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 826
• Coordinated antisemitic violence appeared spontaneous but was centrally organized #exemplifies (0.84) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 316
• Low- and high-coordination violence complement each other within sustained campaigns #expands (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 826