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VOL. XIII, Issue 2

Seeing Political Violence through Different Lenses

This Editorial Postscript was a late addition to this issue of Perspectives on Terrorism, but it felt necessary to contribute something to the Special Correspondence. There is value in the essays by Muhammad Feyyaz and Abhinav Pandya, even taken separately, but greater significance comes from discussing where the authors agree
and where they disagree, both about Pulwama and about its consequences. Below is an attempt to connect the two pieces, to help generate broader discussions over the challenges of studying and writing about political violence.

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