"Why do they hate us so?" Vamik Volkan has the most compelling, humane, and universal response to the riddle of our time. In this timely book, Volkan explains the relationship between large-group identities and massive traumas, current events and ongoing conflicts around the world, including those related to the horrific attacks of 9/11. In Killing in the Name of Identity, Volkan has taken readers deeper into the dark and vulnerable collective mind of ethnic, religious, cultural, and national group conflict. Readers find themselves making contact with the universal elements that produce the conditions for great human tragedies. No one understands nor writes about large-group terror and violence in a more compassionate and profoundly instructive way.
