Erica Marat is a Professor at the National Defense University's College of International Security Affairs and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University. Marat is the author of The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries and The Military and the State in Central Asia: From Red Army to Independence.
Transformative Violence offers a fresh and important understanding of the catalysts for mobilizing resistance to chronic repression. It brings together insights from two major deadly democracies and maps a worldwide pattern. This book is a major contribution to studies of political violence, social movements, and the struggle for human rights worldwide. * Alison Brysk, Distinguished Professor of Global Studies and Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara * Marat coins a necessary term- transformative violence-to advance our collective understanding of contemporary social movements. It presents a well conceptualized argument on why some violent events rally nations into action to interrupt violence and achieve justice. * Botakoz Kassymbekova, Lecturer in Modern History, University of Basel *