Strategic Violence and Epistemic Negotiation

Strategic Violence as Forceful Epistemic Renegotiation: A Model Based on Contracts, Systems, and Stakeholder Networks A successor to this and this article Abstract: Violence has traditionally been interpreted as chaos or breakdown. This paper reconceptualizes violence as a forceful form of epistemic renegotiation that emerges when institutional or systemic contracts fail. We construct a computational-philosophical model of choice, expectations, and systemic contracts to explain how and why violence arises.

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