Fault line violence spreads globally while intra-civilizational violence stays local

Evidence

More generally, even small amounts of violence between people of different civilizations have ramifications and consequences which intracivilizational violence lacks. When Sunni gunmen killed eighteen Shi’ite worshippers in a mosque in Karachi in February 1995, they further disrupted the peace in the city and created a problem for Pakistan. When exactly a year earlier, a Jewish settler killed twenty-nine Muslims praying at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, he disrupted the Middle Eastern peace process and created a problem for the world. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 703

Categorization

• SEED: Could anchor an essay on how violence’s ‘reach’ depends on the civilizational frame of the victims and perpetrators — scale of consequence as a function of perceived identity.