All honourable men the social origins of war in lebanon michael johnson london centre for lebanese studies in association with i b tauris 2001 316 hb gbp3950 1 86064 715 4 by michael johnson . Ahmad s moussalli american university of beirut all honourable men the social origins of war in lebanon by michael johnson london centre for lebanese studies in association with i b tauris 2001 316 pp price hb gbp3950 isbn 1 86064 715 4 we killed him openly pedro vicario said but we are innocent perhaps before god said father amador before god and . All honourable men the social origins of war in lebanon michael johnson london centre for lebanese studies in association with i b tauris 2001 316 hbgbp3. All honourable men examines the cultural values of honour and patriarchy in lebanon with a particular concern to show how they influenced confessional identity and conflict in the nineteenth and twentieth century while there are many studies of the social construction of difference few deal with the emotional content of ethnic violence drawing on sociological and psychoanalytic theory and using comparative examples from other parts of the world johnson analyses the violent emotions of . Ethnic conflict is a pervasive feature of the modern world yet while there are many studies of the social construction of difference there are few that deal with the emotional content of ethnic violence drawing on sociological and psychoanalytic theory and using comparative examples from other parts of the world michael johnson examines the history of confessional or ethnic identity in