ABSTRACT
The combined armed group-legitimating community whole aims to achieve certain goals of a national content, which are almost always socialist in nature, using a common strategy and tactics specific to each of the two elements of the whole. The long term strategic programme almost always involves attaining a separate and independent nation-state. The mobilisation of resources by an armed group is most favourable if it has achieved the exclusive use of political violence in the ethno-national territory. With regard to the political violence waged by a group, it is necessary to analyse the instruments, or weaponry, the thresholds of violence, targets, and the symbolic meaning of attacks. The identity logic operates in long-term conflicts in favour of the armed group's progressive crossing of the thresholds of violence. In the context of ethno-national territory, the exclusion of the periphery as a whole, or of the anti-system nationalism, in those cases where a system of nationalisms exists, feeds political violence.
