We know from history that engaging in violence only causes more problems. So why do police and protesters still do it? René Girard had an answer: imitative behavior.
Joel Hodge
Joel Hodge is a senior lecturer in the School of Theology at the Australian Catholic University, in Melbourne. He is the author of Violence in the Name of God: The Militant Jihadist Response to Modernity and Resisting Violence and Victimisation: Christian Faith and Solidarity in East Timor.