The Arab World: Between Violence and Consensus

... works are dedicated to the issue of violence? Not many. The Iran–Iraq War took two or three times the number of lives that the Syrian Civil War has. The growing significance of violence as a problematic issue is overlapping with another important social ... ... just one episode. Nobody knows exactly how many such incidents actually took place. The suppression of the Houthi insurgency in Yemen in 2004–2010 (i.e. before the Arab Spring) resulted in several tens of thousands of human casualties. All this caused a barely audible murmur of discontent ...