This paper aims to examine how several types of engagements within civil society, namely (a) inter-communal civic engagement, (b) self (community) policing and (c) elite integration, can contain communal violence, at the proximate level, in Indonesia. Based on Indian data, Varshney found that...

Utilising a newly created data set we examine the relationship between routine/everyday violence and fiscal decentralization in 98 districts of the Indonesian island of Java. By examining possible relationships between fiscal decentralization and routine violence, this paper fills a gap in the...