Epilogue

This concluding chapter briefly lays out the book's main contributions to our understanding of political violence and the research agenda it suggests. It then describes a hypothetical dialogue between the author of the chapter and the author of this work regarding the book's argument, method, evidence, and relevance for violence beyond violent display. It also reflects briefly on the author herself, who began as a doctoral student interested in studying political violence. She had asked some penetrating questions about the methodological and ethical challenges of ethnography in such settings. The chapter provides further insights into the life of the book's author and gives a brief eulogy for her untimely death.