ABSTRACT
In our contemporary times, genocide, mass killing and other violence by groups of people directed at other groups defined by their ethnicity, race, religion, culture or political affiliation have been widespread. Conflict between groups, and violence, can be based on material interest, issues of identity, power and politics, or differentiation between ‘us’ and ‘them’ and devaluation of others that is magnified or even created by difficult life conditions. Such violence between groups, most often part of the same country, can be called collective violence, mass violence or group violence. Sometimes the term ethnopolitical violence has been used.
