High-coordination violence kills more per episode, but frequent low-coordination violence cumulates to similar damage

Evidence

The scheme comes closer to telling us where very high and very low levels of death and damage occur. On the average, collective violence in the upper-right corner (high salience/high coordination) does produce more deaths and physical damage per participant and episode than do other combinations of salience and coordination. Nevertheless, the less salient and less coordinated forms of collective violence sometimes cumulate into very high levels of damage simply because they occur with great frequency. While India’s coordinated attacks such as the Gujarat massacres of 2002 far surpass smaller-scale Hindu–Muslim conflicts in sheer destructiveness when they do occur, a significant share of India’s religious violence from one year to the next continues to take the form of less coordinated and less salient collective encounters (Brass 2003). — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 734

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s own example of India’s Gujarat massacres vs. routine low-grade Hindu-Muslim violence - connects to the reader’s prior knowledge of Brass on India’s institutionalized riot system. — connects to: Violence is mapped by damage salience and actor coordination — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 724; Low-coordination scattered violence can cause more damage than organized violence — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 733; Low- and high-coordination violence complement each other within sustained campaigns — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 826 (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 734

Broader Connections

• Everyday microaggressions cumulatively make targets more vulnerable to lethal violence #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 143
• Cumulative micro-aggressions compound into vulnerability to structural violence #corroborates (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 143
• Low- and high-coordination violence complement each other within sustained campaigns #expands (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 826