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. This article analyses the Islamic State’s (IS) contextual use of different forms of violence and argues that the attacks … article explains how the group has exhibited a three-stage "cycle of violence" in which violence has served specific functions …. In the first stage, from roughly 2003 to 2010, violence was used as part of a mobilisation strategy. In the second stage …